cleverness
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Cleverness, determination and luck had left Soon-Shiong with enormous wealth–we put his current net worth at $12 billion.
From Forbes • Sep. 10, 2014
Cleverness, particularly for someone as clever as David, is the hardest thing to give up.
From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2011
Cleverness there is in the portraits of Alphonse; and his wife's gorgeous costume should be the envy of our fashionable portrait manufacturers.
From Promenades of an Impressionist by Huneker, James
Cleverness, refinement, fancy, and invention, even sublety of intellect, are practically nowhere in this sphere without this.
From Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)
Cleverness again, which has its fair field in the novel of character, is debarred all entry upon this more solemn theatre.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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"The Experiment" and "Superstition"
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