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"He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it."
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"My mother-in-law belongs in Hell, but the devil is afraid she'll end up taking over."

"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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"Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years."
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"I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding."

"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 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."
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