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"Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing."
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"The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all."
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"Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing."
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Personal Development
"Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness."
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"To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song."
Art
"Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life."
Life
"Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion."
Truth
"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."
Age
"Order is power."
Power
"Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious."
Thought
"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret."
Life
"The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes."
Fire
"Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves."
Quality
"Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius."
Talent
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