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There's a social component to cleverness. I'd say that cleverness is the IMPRESSION of quickness and sharpness.
I know a woman who had a stroke several years ago and as a result has very flat affect. Everyone around might be falling over laughing, she'll have a little smile on her face, like that. She's BRILLIANT, and when she opens her mouth, very, very funny. But she's not what you'd call clever, because mostly she doesn't say those things out loud, or react in the way you'd think a "clever" person would to stimuli.
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