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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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"Orion nodded, then asked, 'Dwarf cheese?'Cheese made by dwarfs.'Oh, said Orion, relieved. 'They make it. It's not actually . . .'No. What a horrible thought.'Exactly."
"Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know."
"Sometimes Spiro missed the times when a troublesome worker was thrown out of a high window and that was the end of him. These days, if you threw someone out of a window, they'd phone their lawyer on the way down."
"Excuse me, Captain. Are you two going to weep salty tears of admiration over a helmet all night, or do we have matters to discuss?"
"Well, I don't like the first bit and I don't know the last bit. So I'm really hoping the middle bit is exceptional."
"You know, Miss Holly, you look very dramatic like that, backlit by the fire. Very attractive, if I may say so. I know you shared a moment passionne with Artemis which he subsequently fouled up with his typical boorish behavior. Let me just throw something out there for you to consider while we're chasing the probe: I share Artemis's passion but not his boorishness. No pressure; just think about it.This was enough to elicit a deafening moment of silence even in the middle of a crisis, which Orion seemed to be blissfully unaffected by."
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