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 | "A witty saying proves nothing." | |
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Francois Voltaire
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| "His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it
never is at home." | |
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William Cowper
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| "Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of Shakespeare"s
wit." | |
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Douglas Jerrold
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| "People who can"t be witty exert themselves to be devout and
affectionate." | |
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George Eliot
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| "The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian
champagne." | |
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Robertson Davies
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| "There"s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has
truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words." | |
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Dorthy Parker
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| "This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but
I find he is only a wit among Lords." | |
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Dr. Samuel Johnson
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| "True wit is Nature to advantage dress"d, What oft was thought, but
ne"er so well express"d." | |
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Alexander Pope
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| "Wit is educated insolence." | |
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Aristotle
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| "Wit is the only wall between us and the dark." | |
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Mark Van Doren
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| "WITTICISM, n. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted, and seldom
noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a "joke."" | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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