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Cleverness
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“If you cannot be clever, be careful.”
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“She is always optimistic and resourceful, a woman who, if cast ashore alone on a desert island, would build a house with a guest room.”
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“I'm accused of cleverness as if it were a sin. She is merely clever, they say.”
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“... cleverness is a disease.”
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“... there is a distinct danger in trying to be ever so unconventional and all that. One is more apt than not to make a fool of one's self. And then, too, being always clever is dreadfully hard on the innocent by-standers.”
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“That girl's as handy as a pocket in a shirt!”
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“If a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. If he says perhaps he means no. And if he says no, he's the hell of a diplomat.”
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“The best substitute for money is ingenuity ...”
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“... not all clever words are true. ... And inversely most things that are true are not clever.”