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    Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking
    Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer:
    Hast thou the knack? pamper it not with liking;
    But if thou want it, buy it not too deare
    Many affecting wit beyond their power,
    Have got to be a deare fool for an houre.

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The government of China
has become like
UK and US a pirate
of innocent kidnapped
pharmaceutically abused primates.

The government of China
has become like
UK and US a pirate
of innocent kidnapped
pharmaceutically abused primates.

by O Anna Niemus Found in: Injury Quotes,
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This man [Chesterfield] I thought had been a lord among wits; but
I find he is only a wit read more

This man [Chesterfield] I thought had been a lord among wits; but
I find he is only a wit among lords.

by Samuel Johnson Found in: Wit Quotes,
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At our wittes end.

At our wittes end.

by John Heywood Found in: Wit Quotes,
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People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

by George Eliot Found in: Wit Quotes,
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Aristotle said , , , melancholy men of all others are most witty.

Aristotle said , , , melancholy men of all others are most witty.

by Robert Burton Found in: Wit Quotes,
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Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get
blunted.

Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get
blunted.

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You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.

You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.

by Andreas Gryphius Found in: Wit Quotes,
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It is better to receive than to do an injury.
[Lat., Accipere quam facere injuiam praestat.]

It is better to receive than to do an injury.
[Lat., Accipere quam facere injuiam praestat.]

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'Twas he
Gave heat unto the injury, which returned
Like a petard ill lighted, unto the bosom
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'Twas he
Gave heat unto the injury, which returned
Like a petard ill lighted, unto the bosom
Of himn gave fire to it.

by Francis Beaumont Found in: Injury Quotes,
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