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"This man [Chesterfield] I thought had been a lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among lords."
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"It is with wits as with razors, which are never so apt to cut those they are employed on as when they have lost their edge."
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Wit is a form of intelligent humour—the ability to say or write things that are clever and typically funny. Someone witty, also known as a wit, is a person skilled at wit, making spontaneous one-line or single-phrase jokes. Forms of wit include the quip, repartee, and wisecrack.
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"Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide."
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"For wit and judgment often are at strife, Though meant each others aid, like man and wife."
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"Some mens wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven."
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"To the many, witticisms not only require to be explained, like riddles, but are also like new shoes, which people require to wear many times before they get accustomed to them."
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"Make the doors upon a womans wit and it will out at the casement; shut that and twill out at the key-hole; stop that, twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney."
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