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Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts.
charles stross— Chapter 7 (“Curator”), p. 266
But as it falleth, in the gentlest hearts Imperious love hath highest set his throne, And tyrannizeth in the bitter smarts Of them, that to him buxom are and prone.
Edmund Spenser— 1590 The Faerie Queen, bk.3, canto 2, stanza 23. buxom = 'yielding'.
He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
james boswell— Comment on Samuel Johnson's treatment of Thomas Sheridan (16 October 1769)
Lo, when two dogs are fighting in the streets,With a third dog one of the two dogs meets;With angry teeth he bites him to the bone,And this dog smarts for what that dog has done.
Henry Fielding— Act I, sc. vi
No creature smarts so little as a fool.
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, Prologue to Satires, line 84.
So when two dogs are fighting in the streets, When a third dog one of the two dogs meets: With angry teeth he bites him to the bone, And this dog smarts for what that dog has done.
Henry Fielding— Henry Fielding, Tom Thumb the Great (1730), Act I, scene 5, line 55.
No one is evil, they just make very bad decisions. And no one has super powers, they only have their street smarts.
— Wilkinson, Amber (18 July 2008). "Giving British films some Punch". Eye for Film (www.eyeforfilm.co.uk). Retrieved on 23 February 2012.
No creature smarts so little as a fool.
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, [[w:Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot|}]. Prologue to Imitations of Horace, Line 84 (1734).
