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"He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it."
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"I am often the brunt of my own humor."
"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."
"When I battle wits with Jarod Kintz I always feel like I need to take my brain out to give him a transplant. Bad part is we don't have any."
"Take a pinch of snuff, doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example."
"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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"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."
"A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion."
"If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good."
"I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything."
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