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Roman military tactics were much over-rated. All the clever ones had the same idea, which was to go round the back.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Oscar Wilde
Saying
Sometimes
Word
Clever
Single
Understand
Am
Single Word
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
People
Old
Clever
Young
Kind
Admire
Admired
Clever People
Am
Now
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
Time
You
Communication
Try
Important
Clever
Tremendous
Back
Once
Point
Driver
Come
Make
Pile
Hit
Whack
Subtle
Again
Then
Use
Third
Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.
Adolf Hitler
Life
People
Paradise
Made
Clever
Hell
Other
Consider
Way
Constant
See
Propaganda
Wretched
Through
Most
Also
Sort
Round
Application
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
Good
Great
Conversation
People
Great Deal
Clever
Idea
Call
Well-Informed
Deal
Who
Good Company
Company
The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
W. C. Fields
Cheese
Pet
Rat
Clever
Breath
Down
Eats
Cat
Holes
Breathes
Yes, the rich will find ways to avoid paying more taxes, courtesy of clever accountants and tax attorneys. But this has always been the case, regardless of where the tax rate is set.
Robert Reich
Will
Clever
Rich
Ways
Find
Case
Rate
More
Attorneys
Courtesy
Always
Been
Yes
Accountants
Tax
Where
Regardless
Tax Rate
Taxes
Paying
Avoid
Set
Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth.
Shel Silverstein
Truth
Me
Wise
Clever
Cute
Tell
Kind
Perfect
Talented
Graceful
Sensitive
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
Good
Speak
Clever
Nothing
Others
Way
Say
Ourselves
Good Thing
Always
Praising
Often
Dishonest
Ill
Thing
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
Naguib Mahfouz
You
Wise
Man
Clever
Tell
Answers
His
Questions
Whether
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