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 A man may learn wit every day

 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

 Great wits are sure to madness near allied - And thin partitions do their bounds divide
  John Dryden

 He thought he was a wit, and he was half right.
  Joseph Addison

 I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
  Oscar Wilde

 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

 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

 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

 Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
  Oscar Wilde

 She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
  William Somerset Maugham

 So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
  Alexander Pope

 The well of true wit is truth itself
  George Meredith

 Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things which differ, and the difference between things which are alike
  Madame de Stael

 Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly
  Michel de Montaigne

 Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.
  G. K. Chesterton


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