wit

John Selden

John Selden quote: “No man is the wiser for his…”

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Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope quote: “A wit with dunces, and a dunce…”

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Charles de Secondat

Charles de Secondat quote: “Raillery is a mode of speaking in…”

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Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce quote: “Wit — the salt with which the…”

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin quote: “Words may show a man’s wit but…”

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin quote: “At twenty years of age the will…”

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Ancient wisdom

Sophocles quote: “For those whose wit becomes the mother…”

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Leader quotes

William Penn quote: “Less judgment than wit is more sail…”

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Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne quote: “Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to…”

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Author quotes

Mark Twain quote: “Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas…”

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Author quotes

Mark Twain quote: “The wit knows that his place is…”

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Author quotes

Mark Twain quote: “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool…”

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Poet quotes

William Congreve quote: “Wit must be foiled by wit: cut…”

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Poet quotes

Samuel Taylor Coleridge quote: “What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole…”

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Poet quotes

William Congreve quote: “To find a young fellow that is…”

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Poet quotes

Samuel Taylor Coleridge quote: “The genius of the Spanish people is…”

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Anatole France

Anatole France quote: “Silence is the wit of fools…”

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Poet quotes

William Congreve quote: “Come, come, leave business to idlers, and…”

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Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding quote: “Commend a fool for his wit, or…”

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Poet quotes

William Congreve quote: “A wit should be no more sincere…”

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Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope quote: “Wit is the lowest form of humor…”

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Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope quote: “There is a certain majesty in simplicity…”

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James A. Garfield

James A. Garfield quote: “The truth will set you free, but…”

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Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope quote: “So vast is art, so narrow human…”

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Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope quote: “One science only will one genius fit;…”

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Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope quote: “Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In…”

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Life quotes

R. D. Laing quote: “Life is a sexually-transmitted disease, and…”

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Playwright quotes

William Shakespeare quote: “There’s many a man has more hair…”

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George Meredith

George Meredith quote: “The well of true wit is truth…”

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Quotes about human nature

Oscar Wilde quote: “The man who can dominate…”

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