"Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that……" — Isak Dinesen

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• Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night. — Dave Barry
• Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us… — William Bernbach
• Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like. — Arnold Bennett
• I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness. — Dan Brown
• We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay,… — Tom Brown, Jr.
• The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who… — Jean de la Bruyere
• I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in… — Julie Burchill
• Clever men are good, but they are not the best. — Thomas Carlyle
• Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. — Henri Frederic Amiel
• Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing. — Henri Frederic Amiel
• Now that cleverness was the fashion most people were clever - even perfect fools; and cleverness after all was often… — Walter de La Mare
• Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak. — Sun Tzu

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