"Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit."
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"Wit is that which has been often thought, but never before was well expressed."
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"I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored."
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"Digression is the soul of wit."
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"Necessity can sharpen the wits even of children."
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"You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit."
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"I think humor is warmer, and wit is colder. Wit is judgment, whereas humor invites some sort of response."
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"When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits."
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"Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity."
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"The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots."
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"The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers."
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"Wealth can be created. Wit and intelligence can't."
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"The Germans wit is in his fingers."
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"Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out."
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"Americans just don't understand dry wit."
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"It takes a hell of a lot for a man to put up with me. I can be a handful."
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"There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven."
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