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"Take a pinch of snuff, doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example."
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"Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."
Time
"London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained."
Writing
"Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature."
Nature
"I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner."
Impression
"A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it."
Man
"I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children."
Character
"From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other."
Possibility
"We can't command our love, but we can our actions."
Love
"His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge."
Knowledge
"Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren."
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"My mother-in-law belongs in Hell, but the devil is afraid she'll end up taking over."
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"Look, he's winding up the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike."
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"The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go."
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"This is a lot more satisfying," he said, "when I have intelligent life whom I can render awed, rapt with attention for my clever verbosity."The ugly lizard-crab-thing on the next rock over clicked its claw, an almost hesitant sound."Your right, of course," Wit said. "My usual audience isn't particularly intelligent. That was also the obvious joke, however, so shame on you."
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"The wittiest authors raise the very slightest of smiles."
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"Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones."
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"And are you going to explain why you consider competing with me to be the most sincere form of compliment? "Of course I am, Lightsong said. "My dear, have you ever known me to make an inflammatorily ridiculous statement without providing an equally ridiculous explanation to substantiate it? "Of course not, she agreed. "You are nothing if not exhaustive in your self-congratulatory made-up logic. "I am rather exceptional in that regard."
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"Take a pinch of snuff, doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example."
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"Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond."
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"She complains that I'm lazy, but I just like to save my energy for dinner."
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