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Aristotle said * * * melancholy men of all others are most witty.
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Great wits and valours, like great states,Do sometimes sink with their own weights.
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His wit invites you by his looks to come,But when you knock, it never is at home.
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Wit: a form of sex display.
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For wit and judgment often are at strife,Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife.
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How the wit brightens! how the style refines!
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If faith itself has different dresses worn,What wonder modes in wit should take their turn?
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You have a nimble wit; I think it was made of Atalanta's heels.
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They have a plentiful lack of wit.
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Your wit's too hot, it speeds too fast, 'twill tire.
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Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them;But, in the less, foul profanation.
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He doth, indeed, show some sparks that are like wit.
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A good old man, sir: he will be talking, as they say, When the age is in, the wit is out.
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Sir, your wit ambles well; it goes easily.
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Thy wit is as quick as the greyhound's mouth; it catches.
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To leave this keen encounter of our wits,And fall somewhat into a slower method.
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Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting: it is most sharp sauce.
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Look, he's winding up the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
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An ounce of wit is worth a pound of sorrow.
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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
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I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.
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Wit, now and then, struck smartly, shows a spark.
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Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long.
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At our wittes end.
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Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner.
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A man does not please long when he has only one species of wit.
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Mother Wit. (Nature's mother wit).
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Have you summoned your wits from wool-gathering?
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Whose wit, in the combat, as gentle as bright,Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.
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You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come;Knock as you please, there's nobody at home.
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Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state.
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Too much wit makes the world rotten.
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And wit its honey lent, without the sting.
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Good wits will jump.
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He had too thoughtful a wit: like a penknife in too narrow a sheath, too sharp for his body.
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Nae wut without a portion o' impertinence.
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Though I am young, I scorn to flitOn the wings of borrowed wit.
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