Only yesterday my husband was telling me he thought you one of the cleverest young men he knew.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
The cleverest man would never be made the manager of a large business, if there was reason to think that he had committed fraud.
"Political economy"
W. Stanley Jevons
And the people he had met on the road and at market, and what they had said to him about the weather and their business and the prospects of the year, how their wives and children were, and the clever jokes they had made, and his own jokes, which were the cleverest of all.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson