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"Words may show a man's wit, but actions his meaning."
Benjamin Franklin
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"Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves."
Lord Chesterfield
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"Wit does not take the place of knowledge."
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
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"As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers."
Plato
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"Listen carefully to what country people call mother's wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations."
Maya Angelou
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"Wit has truth in it."
Dorothy Parker
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"There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise."
Roger Ascham
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"Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature."
Peggy Noonan
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