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Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
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The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
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Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.
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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
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Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in the world. A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.
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Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.
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This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.