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Wit is educated insolence.
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Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.
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Wit. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
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The banalities of a great man pass for wit.
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Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.
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A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
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Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.
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Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.
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A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast, and say he wounded you in jest, by way of balm for healing.
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People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
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He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
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The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.
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Avoid witicisms at the expense of others.
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To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
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Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.
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Wit is brushwood; judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, and the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.
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Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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Brevity is the body and soul of wit.
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Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed.
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He's winding up the watch of his wit. By and by it will strike.
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Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
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Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.
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Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit, but unlike the French and the English, we have not been much good at wit since the days of Benjamin Franklin.
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Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.
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Wit and Humor -- if any difference, it is in duration -- lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage -- the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.
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Wit is more often a shield than a lance.
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Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.
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You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice?
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