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Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.

Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long.

But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right of property in slaves falls to the ground; for one who is equal to another cannot be the owner or property of that other.

And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind.

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

There's many a man has more hair than wit.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.

They sit there in committees day after day, And they each put in a color and it comes out gray. And we all have heard the saying, which is true as well as witty, That a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee.

Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.

Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.