Intelligence is a burden not many are willing or able to carry.

Darnell Lamont Walker
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Intelligence is a burden not many are willing or able to carry. – W.C. Fields Intelligence is a burden to those who possess it; a gift to those who do not. It makes life very hard on those who have it, and very easy on those that don’t.

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