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

"What is perfectly true is perfectly witty."

"When I battle wits with Jarod Kintz I always feel like I need to take my brain out to give him a transplant. Bad part is we don't have any."

"She complains that I'm lazy, but I just like to save my energy for dinner."

"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."

"I am often the brunt of my own humor."
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"To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common."

"I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service.""

"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."

"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point."

"Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly."

"People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights."

"Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend."

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
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