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Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her.

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This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!

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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

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There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea.

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Do I dare disturb the universe?

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Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

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One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed.

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Clever tyrants are never punished.

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Twas a clever quibble. Here, a garment for it.

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Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out.

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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

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A mind that is always comparing, always measuring, will always engender illusion. If I am measuring myself against you, who are clever, more intelligent, I am struggling to be like you and I am denying myself as I am. I am creating an illusion.

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[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

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All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.

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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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Write drunk; edit sober.

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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

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Do I dare disturb the universe?

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The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.

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