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Jai Ganesh

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Clever Quotes - II

Clever Quotes - II

1. It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism. - Sylvia Plath

2. Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men. - George Bernard Shaw

3. If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, 'Oh, I forgot that bit,' then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you've figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is! - Richard P. Feynman

4. I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too. - Euripides

5. I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

6. If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory. - Benjamin Disraeli

7. To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say. - Will Durant

8. It's clever, but is it Art? - Rudyard Kipling.

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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.

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