The German is like the slave who, without chains, obeys his masters merest word, his very glance. The condition of servitude is inherent in him, in his very soul and worse than the physical is the spiritual slavery. The Germans must be set free from wit
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The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret that man is black at heart mark and avoid him.
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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
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Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.
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What is an epigram A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke, That hath but one hole for to sterten to.
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Come, sleep, O sleep! The certain knot of peace, The baiting place of wit, the balm of woe; The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, The impartial judge between the high and low.
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Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves.
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'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet, now and then, your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.
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The lives of trees lie only in the barks, And in their styles the wit of greatest clerks.
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Brevity is the soul of wit.
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Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
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Wit is the lowest form of humor.
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No man is wiser for his learning, wit and wisdom are born with a man.
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Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubblingover boyishness. They have relished wit, they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed dignity to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulnesss of spirit is
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This fellow's wise enough to play the fool, And to do that well craves a kind of wit.
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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
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The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself.
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The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to quote another's wit.
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Wit is educated insolence.
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The real wit tells jokes to make others feel superior, while the half-wit tells them to make others feel small.
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The Moving Finger writes and, having writ, Moves on nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
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The younger brother hath the more wit.
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The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
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He is winding the watch of his wit by and by it will strike.
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