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is a scoundrel... it equivocates and hides.

The greater the stupidity, the greater the clarity. Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidity is honest and sincere. Fyodor Dostoevsky

is a sword... it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.

Wit is a sword... it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.

is an indication of a disturbance of the equipoise and, as such, is not a quality of cheerful souls.

In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise. Novalis

is best used to please and not to hurt, for one may shine like the sun in the temperate zones without scorching.

If you have wit, use it to please and not to hurt: you may shine like the sun in the temperate zones without scorching.

is, in contrast to the comic, a serious matter... to laugh at it is to confess that you do not understand.

To be comic is merely to be playful, but wit is a serious matter. To laugh at it is to confess that you do not understand.

is in everything in this world, if we can but find it out.

Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,-- and has wit in it, and instruction too,-- if we can but find it out. Laurence Sterne

is one who makes fun of other persons in contrast to the satirist who makes fun of the world and the humorist who makes fun of himself.

The wit makes fun of other persons... the satirist makes fun of the world... the humorist makes fun of himself.James Thurber (1894 1961), in Edward R. Murrow television interview

is such that a small degree thereof, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it.

A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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