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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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"My mother-in-law belongs in Hell, but the devil is afraid she'll end up taking over."

"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."

"The wittiest authors raise the very slightest of smiles."

"The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go."

"Make the doors upon a woman's wit,and it will out at the casement;shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole;stop that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney."

"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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"For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination."
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