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

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

"I am often the brunt of my own humor."

"If I start giving people what they like I'll turn into one of them and I don't want to be one of them I want to be one of me."

"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."

"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."
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"To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task."


"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."


"He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views."


"You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words."


"She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises."


"Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear."


"They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom."
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