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"A person who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose." »G. F. Lessing
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"You cannot compile a wit out of two half-wits." »Joe Orton
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"The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots." »George Eliot, Middlemarch
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"Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits." »William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 1 scene 1
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"Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation." »Francis Bacon
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"One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all." »Alcaeus
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"Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide." »John Dryden
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"The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." »Bertrand Russell
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"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." »Eden Phillpotts
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"There is nothing like a coup de foudre and absorption in family responsibility for maturing the male and pulling his scattered wits together." »Sir V Pritchett
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"Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart." »Walter Savage Landor
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"No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us." »Seneca
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"The great Creator to revereMust sure become the creatureBut still the preaching cant forbear,And ev'n the rigid featureYet ne'er with wits profane to rangeBe complaisance extendedAn atheist laugh's a poor exchangeFor deity offended." »Robert Burns
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"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor." »Neil Gaiman
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