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"What is perfectly true is perfectly witty."
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"I'm keeping my acerbic wit completely fueled."
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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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"You have a ready wit. Tell me when it's ready."
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"The wittiest authors raise the very slightest of smiles."
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"His foe was folly and his weapon wit."
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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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"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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"Look, he's winding up the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike."
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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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"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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"Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another."
Love
"In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances."
Philosophy
"Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly."
Advice
"It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone."
Philosophy
"The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity."
Desire
"Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world."
Philosophy
"It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self."
Ability
"Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt."
Philosophy
"We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves."
Philosophy
"We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do."
Love
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