"What is perfectly true is perfectly witty."
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"A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom."
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"He who cannot shine by thought, seeks to bring himself into notice by a witticism."
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"The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power."
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"An ounce of prudence is worth a pound of cleverness."
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"[On Thomas Seymour's death:] This day died a man of much wit and very little judgment."
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"Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion."
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"[The Cretans have] more wit than words."
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"Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government."
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"The best prophet is common sense, our native wit."
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"Wit is cultured insolence."
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"They have a plentiful lack of wit."
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"Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness."
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"I assure you, you will never survive on your wits alone."
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"The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit."
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"He seemeth to be most ignorant that trusteth most to his wit."
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"The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny."
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"An ounce of wit that is bought, Is worth a pound that is taught."
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"Your wit makes others witty."
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"The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits."
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