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| Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty |
| Joseph Addison |
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| Great wits are sure to madness near allied - And thin partitions do their bounds divide |
| John Dryden |
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| I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries; that its success depends upon the aptitude of others to receive impressions; and that as some bodies, indissoluble by heat, can set the furnace and crucible at defiance, there are min |
| Samuel Johnson |
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| Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them |
| Charles Caleb Colton |
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| Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures and such pains make up the general mass of life; and as nothing is little to him that feels it with gre |
| Samuel Johnson |
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| No matter how much restriction civilization imposes on the individual, he nevertheless finds some way to circumvent it. Wit is the best safety valve modern man has evolved; the more civilization, the more repression, the more need there is for wit." |
| Sigmund Freud |
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| Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly |
| Michel de Montaigne |
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| Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. |
| Mark Twain |
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