Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep moral, grave logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
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Quotation.. A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill advised the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.
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You can pretend to be serious you can't pretend to be witty.
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A witty saying proves nothing.
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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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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a witty person, but a pebble in the hands of a fool.
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I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
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I can believe anything provided it is incredible.
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
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Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood
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Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
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I have nothing to declare except my genius.
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I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
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I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.
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What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
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A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past
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Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
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