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So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Alexander Pope
There are just certain things that turn my head. It may be a girl's sense of humor, it may be her wit, or her belief system; it could be a lot of different things.
Jensen Ackles
To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.
William Congreve
Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.
Margaret Cavendish
Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.
Virgil Thomson 
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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
James Thurber
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I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.
Chris Cooper
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President Reagan achieved such successes because when you sat in a room with him, there could be over 1,000 people in the room, yet you felt like there was only the two of you, and his wonderful wit would put you at ease. That was a tremendous gift.
Elton Gallegly
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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
Jean de la Bruyere
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For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
James Boswell
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Francois de La RochefoucauldFriedrich NietzscheMason CooleyWilliam ShakespeareMark TwainOscar WildeBenjamin FranklinThomas JeffersonAmbrose Bierce Aristotle SophoclesFrancis BaconWilliam HazlittThomas FullerAlexander Pope
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