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Letter "W" » Wit
"Wit is educated insolence."
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"An ounce of wit is worth a pound of sorrow."
Author: Richard Baxter
About: Wit
"What silly people wits are!
[Lat., Que les gens d'esprit sont betes.]"
Author: Pierre Auguste Caron de Beaumarchais
About: Wit
"Aristotle said , , , melancholy men of all others are most witty."
Author: Robert Burton
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"We grant, although he had much wit,
H' was very shy of using it,
As being loth to wear it out,
And therefore bore it not about;
Unless on holy days or so,
As men their best apparel do."
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
About: Wit
"Great wits and valours, like great states,
Do sometimes sink with their own weights."
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
About: Wit
"Do sometimes sink with their own weights.
[Lat., Votre espril en donne aux autres.]"
Author: Catherine, the Great
About: Wit
"Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get
blunted."
Author: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
About: Wit
"I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough
to be a wit."
Author: William Congreve
About: Wit
"His wit invites you by his looks to come,
But when you knock, it never is at home."
Author: William Cowper
About: Wit
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