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• It's not that you and I are so clever, but that the others are such fools.
• If at first you don't succeed, stand back, give way, and let others make fools of themselves, so you'll have company.
• You are clever, alert, and intellectual.
• A clever bluff, Agent N42, but not clever enough. You see, right away I recognized your `pistol' as a cleverly disguised cigarette lighter.
• My lungs began to crow like chanticleer, That fools should be so deep-contemplative
  And I did laugh sans intermission An hour by his dial....
• Quick! Bring me a beaker of wine so that I may wet my mind and say something clever!
  -- Aristophanes (sp?)...
• So, rather than appear foolish afterward, I renounce seeming clever now.
  -- William of Baskerville, The Name of the Rose...
• I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so. -- John Donne
• Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...