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

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

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.

The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

There's something advantageous about having people underestimate your intellect, insomuch as a lot of things are revealed to you. They assume you don't know what you're talking about, then all of a sudden, you do. And the next thing you know, you have information you wouldn't normally have.

Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are.

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

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