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"Now you don't know the meaning of clever," she said; "Sheridan might be clever scamps often are, but Johnson hadn't a spark of 'cleverality' in him." That remark gives the essence of The Rambler. Whoever wants "cleverality," whoever wants what Mr. Shaw and Mr. Chesterton supply so brilliantly and abundantly to the present generation, had best leave Johnson alone.
The signal merit of his writings is the exact opposite of "cleverality"; it is that he always means exactly what he says. He often talked for victory, but except, perhaps, in the political pamphlets he always wrote for truth.
"Some one at school said she 'was always talking about clever people; Johnson, Sheridan, &c. She said, 'Now you don't know the meaning of clever, Sheridan might be clever; yes, Sheridan was clever, scamps often are; but Johnson hadn't a spark of cleverality in him. No one appreciated the opinion; they made some trivial remark about 'cleverality, and she said no more.
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