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“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
Oscar Wilde
“Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.”
Dorothy Parker
“Wit is cultured insolence.”
Aristotle
“Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.”
G. K. Chesterton
“Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not the wits enought to be honest”
Benjamin Franklin
“At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement.”
“Words may show a man's wit, but actions his meaning”
“Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.”
Maya Angelou
“For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, action nor utterance, nor the power of speech, to stir men's blood. I only speak right on. I tell you that which you yourselves do know.”
William Shakespeare
“You know I am a woman, lacking wit.”
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