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Jai Ganesh

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Clever Quotes - I

Clever Quotes - I

1. If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. -  Winston Churchill

2. The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. - Rudyard Kipling

3. One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. - Will Durant

4. 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. - Jane Austen

5. To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it. - Gilbert K. Chesterton

6. I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. - Oscar Wilde

7. A clever man commits no minor blunders. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

8. What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation, and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy! - Joseph Pulitzer.
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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.