Wish not to seem, but to be,

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• The wisest of the wise may
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• I wish there was a knob on the TV where you could turn up the intelligence.
  They've got one called brightness, but it doesn't seem...
• I wish TV had a knob so you could turn up the intelligence.
  The one marked Brightness doesn't seem to work...
• When a man's willing and eager,
  the gods join in. --...