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"Look, he's winding up the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike."
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"Gabe scratched his double chin. "Maybe if you hurry with the seven-layer dip...And maybe if the kid apologizes for interrupting my poker game."Maybe if I kick you in your soft spot, I thought. And make you sing Soprano for a week."
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"She complains that I'm lazy, but I just like to save my energy for dinner."
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"If it works, it will be plenty dramatic. And I suppose that if it doesn't work, it will be even more dramatic, what with the blast.""David, I think you just made a joke."He frowned, utterly perplexed. "Did I?"
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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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"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 still awake?' asked the anesthetist.'Nope,' I replied."
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"You have a ready wit. Tell me when it's ready."
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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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"That's your solution? Have a cookie?"
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Life
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Politics
"Better belly burst than good liquor be lost."
Wisdom
"Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly."
Man
"The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome."
Trust
"Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room."
Art
"My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool."
Love
"Observation is an old man's memory."
Man
"As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold."
Love
"It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not."
Man
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