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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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"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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"I'm keeping my acerbic wit completely fueled."
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"That's your solution? Have a cookie?"
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"When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs."
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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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"Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction."
Life
"Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions."
Politics
"As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold."
Love
"The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style."
Style
"Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting."
Man
"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
"When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him."
Genius
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