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"The wittiest authors raise the very slightest of smiles."
"The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go."
"Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years."
"Take a pinch of snuff, doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example."
"Oh, I can't help quoting you, because everything that you said rings true."
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"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."
"Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good repartee when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead."
"I always love to begin a journey on Sundays because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land or by water."
"Yet, Malice never was his Aim;He lash'd the Vice but spar'd the Name. No individual could resent,Where thousands equally were meant. His Satry points at no Defect, But what all Mortals may correct...Verses on the death of Dr Swift."
"He likewise directed, "that every senator in the great council of a nation, after he had delivered his opinion, and argued in the defence of it, should be obliged to give his vote directly contrary; because if that were done, the result would infallibly terminate in the good of the public."
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