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“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

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“Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.”
― Quentin Crisp

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“To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.”
― Fernando Pessoa, Libro del desasosiego

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“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it”
― Fernando Pessoa

tags: humour

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“Like the castle in its corner
In a medieval game
I foresee terrible trouble
And I stay here just the same.”
― Steely Dan, The Best of Steely Dan

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