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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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"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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"My mother-in-law belongs in Hell, but the devil is afraid she'll end up taking over."
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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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"Great men may jest with saints 'tis wit in them But in the less foul profanation."
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"Look, he's winding up the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike."
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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."
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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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"Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond."
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"His foe was folly and his weapon wit."
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"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."
Christian
"For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear."
Grief
"I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all."
Love
"Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey."
Love
"What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now."
Life
"They never fail who die in a great cause."
Cause
"I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether."
Politics
"For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction."
Truth
"The busy have no time for tears."
Time
"This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all."
Fear
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