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

No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

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

Genius is never understood in its own time.

I learned from both my parents that you had to be clever.

Too clever is dumb.

I hate clever-cleverness, but I love good honest cleverness.

When people sometimes misquote me, I don't know if they understand what I'm saying.

People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.

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