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Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
James Thurber
A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
George Meredith
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.
Giacomo Casanova
Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Giacomo Casanova 
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Honore De Balzac 
Albert Schweitzer 
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Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
James Thurber 
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Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
George Meredith
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In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.
Giacomo Casanova
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Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.
John Webster
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The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
Florence King
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
Honore De Balzac
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Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
Andre Maurois
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