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"He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it."
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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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"A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation."
Conversation
"He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it."
Wit
"I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding."
Argument
"What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!"
Life
"We must take our friends as they are."
Friendship
"It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy."
Man
"A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself."
Friendship
"I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything."
Character
"For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation."
Conversation
"There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends."
Love
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