#clever man

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man. ↗

— Israel Zangwill

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A clever man commits no minor blunders. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I have a fantastic husband. Here's the honeymoon part: I still think he's the funniest, wittiest, most clever man I've ever known. ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

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

— Rudyard Kipling

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To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to. ↗

— Fannie Hurst

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The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought. ↗

— John Keegan

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