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Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery  (Wit Quotes) A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share in another  (Wit Quotes) The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick  (Wit Quotes) Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour  (Wit Quotes) A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to  (Wit Quotes) Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius  (Wit Quotes) If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again  (Wit Quotes) I get it, I get it. I get it, I get it. Your hustle don’t ever go unnoticed baby, I’m wit you, I’m wit it  (Wit Quotes) The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness  (Wit Quotes) Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side  (Wit Quotes) It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others  (Wit Quotes) 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  (Wit Quotes) 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  (Wit Quotes) To say that it is without pace, point, focus, interest, drama, wit or originality is to say simply that it does not happen to be my cup of tea  (Wit Quotes) Surely we have the wit and will to develop economically without despoiling the very environment we depend upon  (Wit Quotes) It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent  (Wit Quotes) I never have frustrations. The reason is to wit: Of at first I don’t succeed, I quit!  (Wit Quotes) Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself  (Wit Quotes) There is nothing that more betrays a base ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret stabs to a man’s reputation. Lampoons and satires that are written with wit and spirit are like poisoned darts, which not only inflict a wound, but make it incurable  (Wit Quotes) The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose  (Wit Quotes) Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life’s bittersweet route  (Wit Quotes) A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen  (Wit Quotes) 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  (Wit Quotes) There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am not understood, it shall be concluded, that something very useful and profound is couched underneath; and again, that whatever word or sentence is printed in a different character, shall be judged to contain something extraordinary either or wit of sublime  (Wit Quotes) We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only with an enormous effort that we can detach ourselves from this burden. If it comes to a neurosis, we invariably have to deal with a considerably intensified shadow. And if such a person wants to be cured it is necessary to find a way in which his conscious personality and his shadow can live together  (Wit Quotes) Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Yet it must be confessed that wit given an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely  (Wit Quotes) There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought  (Wit Quotes) To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task  (Wit Quotes) This magical universe is so faithful in waiting for us to get out of our own way. Many people do not realize that the sharpening of wit occurs when one humbles their wit. It is in the humble mindset that beauty and magic flow freely  (Wit Quotes) A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool  (Wit Quotes)
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