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"The wittiest authors raise the very slightest of smiles."
"My mother-in-law belongs in Hell, but the devil is afraid she'll end up taking over."
"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."
"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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"'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman."
"You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words."
"He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views."
"Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass."
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