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“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
Oscar Wilde
“Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.”
Dorothy Parker
“Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.”
G. K. Chesterton
“Words may show a man's wit, but actions his meaning”
Benjamin Franklin
“At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement.”
“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
“My presence of mind is frequently absent.”
Rain Bojangles
“Wit is cultured insolence.”
Aristotle
“Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not the wits enought to be honest”
“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. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.”
Lord Chesterfield
