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(verb) To hurt or sting. Example: "After being hit with a pitch, the batter exclaimed "Ouch, my arm smarts!""

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"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber."
— Plato
"A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none."
— Marilyn Monroe
"It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer."
— Albert Einstein
"A smart girl leaves before she is left"
— Marilyn Monroe
"Those kids aren't dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don't get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves."
— James Baldwin
"It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think."
— Thomas Sowell

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