Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
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Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
Hungry wolves
Cleverness is not intelligence.
Intelligence is brain's power.
Cleverness is brain's hunger.
Clever people are hungry wolves.
04.05.2012
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Scott Clifton
S is for the way you Sing
C is for your Cleverness
O is for being the Only One for me
T is for your Testimony
T is for your song Testify
C is for Cleverness
L is for the way you Love
I is for your beautiful set of Eyes
F is for your Funny since of humor
T is for the Tone of your voice
O is for Obtaining your temper
N is for Not losing your temper, or since of humor
poem by Kathryn Thompson
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When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.
The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.
quote by Francis Quarles
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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
quote by Oscar Wilde
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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.
quote by Henry Miller
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
quote by W. Somerset Maugham
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She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
quote by W. Somerset Maugham
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The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
quote by Henry Bolingbroke
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The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?
quote by Charles Eames
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
quote by Samuel Butler
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The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.
quote by La Rochefoucauld
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