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The ancient Masters didn't try to educate the people, but kindly taught them to not-know. When they think that they know the answers, people are difficult to guide. When they know that they don't know, people can find their own way. If you want to learn how to govern, avoid being clever or rich. The simplest pattern is the clearest. Content with an ordinary life, you can show all people the way back to their own true nature.

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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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She came into a room; she stood, as he had often seen her, in a doorway with lots of people round her. But it was Clarissa one remembered. Not that she was striking; not beautiful at all; there was nothing picturesque about her; she never said anything specially clever; there she was however; there she was.

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Good women are rarely clever and clever women are rarely good.

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The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

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Bessie Braddock: "Winston, you're drunk. Churchill: "Bessie, you're ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober.

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Whoever is the first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy will be fresh for the fight... Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy... By holding out advantages to him, he can cause the enemy to approach of his own accord; or by inflicting damage, he can make it impossible for the enemy to draw near.

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The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him.

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We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.

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Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.

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What a man misses mostly in heaven is company.

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The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.

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A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!

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Anger is a weed; hate is a tree

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

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They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.

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You cannot trust a person until you know where and how he lives

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American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

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Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him. He never made economic promises to people and as a result, he never led to dissatisfaction in this perspective. Because they need to get votes, they use misleading slogans. And this leads to rising expectations. I had a personal experience.

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When one thinks profusely and cleverly, not only his face but his body too takes on a clever appearance.

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