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We are not wise, we are not clever - it's simply that we don't receive wisdom. The wisdom to understand how the world works. The wisdom to understand that there are no shortcuts to success. Wisdom is something you have to be given, not something you can acquire or earn. Those who claim to have wisdom but will not share it with others are in fact, also in need of it themselves.
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