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"Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade."
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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."
"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."
"What is perfectly true is perfectly witty."
"Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years."
"If I start giving people what they like I'll turn into one of them and I don't want to be one of them I want to be one of me."
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"I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday."
"People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it."
"My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough."
"We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we?"
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