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It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

I think there is a basic comfort in clever people who know things.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

It's not very hard to be clever. It's far harder to be simple, obvious, and meaningful.

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization.

If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier.

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.