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“They hit you at school, they hate you if your clever, and they despise a fool.”

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“Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.”

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“The ladies usually go for the biggest damn fool they can find; that is why the human race stands where it does today: we have bred the clever and lasting Casanovas, all hollow inside, like the chocolate Easter bunnies we foster upon our poor children.”

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Book:Notes of a Dirty Old Man

Source: Notes of a Dirty Old Man

“Deprived of the company of fools, a great wit does not seem half so clever.”

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Author:Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

“Luke Jermay is as devious as he's clever, and he's a Master at complication - with this take on TTTCBE he might just fool the Devil.”

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Author:Roberto Giobbi

“Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave.”

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Book:A few days in Athens: being the translation of a Greek manuscript discovered in Herculaneum

Source: A few days in Athens: being the translation of a Greek manuscript discovered in Herculaneum

“And still I look for the men who will dare to be roses of England wild roses of England men who are wild roses of England with metal thorns, beware! but still more brave and still more rare the courage of rosiness in a cabbage world fragrance of roses in a stale stink of lies rose-leaves to bewilder the clever fools and rose-briars to strangle the machine.”

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Book:Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

Source: Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

“For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man; But it takes a very clever woman to manage a fool. I never made a mistake in my life; At least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards”

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Author:Rudyard Kipling

“Some fool aims to go to heaven; some clever knows that there isn't any; and some intelligent tries to create one with his own effort! Be intelligent!”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.”

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Author:Voltaire

“Passion often makes a fool of the cleverest man and often makes the most foolish men clever”

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Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Show me a man or woman who cannot stand mysteries and I will show you a fool, a clever fool - perhaps - but a fool just the same.”

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Book:Raymond Chandler Speaking

Source: Raymond Chandler Speaking

“When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.”

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Author:Russell Baker

“The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.”

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Author:Rudyard Kipling

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”

“A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.”

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Book:Catherine: A Story

Source: Catherine: A Story

“I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in all its nakedness, but the others are able to cover it with a veil so delicate, so daintily woven with small plausible lies, that there is some pleasure to be found in contemplating this ingenious work of the human intelligence.”

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Book:Recollections

Source: Recollections

“By this method thousands of humans have been brought to think that humility means pretty women trying to believe they are ugly and clever men trying to believe they are fools. And since what they are trying to believe may, in some cases, be manifest nonsense, they cannot succeed in believing it and we have the chance of keeping their minds endlessly revolving on themselves in an effort to achieve the the impossible.”

Source: Joyful Christian

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