Agnes Repplier - Wit Quotes

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Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.

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We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.

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Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.

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Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.

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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.

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Whatever has "wit enough to keep it sweet" defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.

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