Anyways, I just thought myself a little mite cleverer and handsomer and better than the rest o' the family.

Pictures are invaluable to the stupid; they benumb and enervate the clever, and turn them into apish imitators, instead of making them able to act from their own knowledge and volition.

They were all anxious to teach him the business of the county, and the more he endeavoured to learn from them the cleverer they thought him.

I mean the clever.

But there's no fund for rewarding the clever for being cleverer than most of their fellow-beings, any more than there's a fund to reward the handsome for being above the average in looks.

Captain Duncombe, while muffling his boys, declared that he never saw a cleverer hit in his life, and that those two De Lancey brothers ought to be on the stage; while Miss Moy loudly demanded whether he did not feel it personal; and Mrs. Tallboys, gracefully shaking hands with Anne and Rosamond, declared it a grand challenge where the truth had been unconsciously hit off.

Too blame clever, me, dat's de troub'.

He was obliged to use the stupid word clever, as there was no other.