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"Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing."
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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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"Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness."
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"Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion."
Truth

"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret."
Life

"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."
Age

"Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious."
Thought

"Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life."
Life

"The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes."
Fire

"An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains."
Truth

"The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms."
Man

"Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin."
Systems

"Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves."
Quality
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