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Some wits, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an impostor, they are the last of a wit. - Edward Young Wit, how delicious to man's dainty taste! 'Tis precious, as the vehicle of sense; But, as its substitute, a dire disease; Pernicious talent! flatter'd by the world, By the blind world, which thinks the talent rare. Wisdom is rare--wit abounds. Passion can give it; sometimes wine inspires The lucky flash, and madness rarely fails. - Edward Young Against their wills what numbers ruin shun, Purely through want of wit to be undone! Nature has shown by making it so rare, That wit's a jewel which we need not wear. - Edward Young, Epistle to Mr. Pope (ep. II, l. 80) As in smooth oil the razor is whet, So wit is by politeness sharpest set; Their want of edge from their offence is seen, Both pain us least when exquisitely keen. - Edward Young, Love of Fame (satire II, l. 118) Many species of wit are quite mechanical; these are the favorites of witlings, whose fame in words scarce outlives the remembrance of their funeral ceremonies. - Johann Georg von Zimmermann Wit, to be well defined, must be defined by wit itself; then it will be worth listening to. - Johann Georg von Zimmermann Displaying page 10 of 10 for this topic: << Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 [10]
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