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• The criticism of a blind man.

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• Like a millstone dressed in a kimono.

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• Like trying to put a comb upon the nun’s head.

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• A bean-jam rice cake into the open mouth.

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• What is a man but his mind?

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• Use your wit as a shield, not as a sword.

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• If you have wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty.

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• Analysis is soul of thought and ghost of wit.

  Raheel Farooq

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  The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

  Avicenna

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• He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

  Portrait of James Boswell

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• The covers of this book are too far apart.

  Ambrose Bierce

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• A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.

  Lord John Russell

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• For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

  Sophocles

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• Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.

  William Congreve

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• Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Topics in Memory, Success

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• The more wit the less courage.

  Thomas Fuller

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• Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

  William Hazlitt

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• There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike – information and wit.

  Stephen Leacock

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• Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

  Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld

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• So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

  Alexander Pope

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