“I am clever enough to know that I am clever.”
“But am I clever and right or clever and wrong?”
“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.”
“I don't write like this in order to show how clever and well read I am--though I am rather clever and well read as a matter of fact.”
“I am not Cugel the Clever for nothing!”
“Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?”