A Quote by Oscar Wilde
Cleverness becomes a public nuisance.
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Being covered in white paint, you demonstrate behaviour intended to create a public nuisance, which did in fact cause offence to members of the public, and created a breach of the peace and public order.
I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.
Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.
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Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you.
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
You cannot prevent a man getting drunk if he wishes to do so, but when he becomes a nuisance, then you interfere.
I hate clever-cleverness, but I love good honest cleverness.
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cleverness that comes too late is hardly cleverness at all?
Now that cleverness was the fashion most people were clever - even perfect fools; and cleverness after all was often only a bore: all head and no body
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The best way to alleviate the obesity "public health" crisis is to remove obesity from the realm of public health. It doesn't belong there. It's difficult to think of anything more private and of less public concern than what we choose to put into our bodies. It only becomes a public matter when we force the public to pay for the consequences of those choices.
Love is the ark appointed for the righteous,
Which annuls the danger and provides a way of escape.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition.
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