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"Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years."
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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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"Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel."
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"Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit."
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"In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help."
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"As for my brothers, of whom I had three, I know not how they were bred."
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"My other brother, the Lord Lucas, who was heir to my father's estate, and as it were the father to take care of us all, is not less valiant than they were, although his skill in the discipline of war was not so much, not being bred therein."
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"For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance."
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"Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years."
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"As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity."
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"First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women."
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"And not only my own brothers and sisters agreed so but my brothers and sisters in law; and their children, although but young, had the like agreeable natures and affectionate dispositions."
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