It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
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Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
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