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"A witty saying proves nothing." »Voltaire
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"The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to quote another's wit." »Christian Nestell Bovee
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"If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss." »La Rochefoucauld
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"Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor." »Francis Bacon
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"Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood." »William Shakespeare
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"Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep moral, grave logic and rhetoric, able to contend." »Francis Bacon
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"You can pretend to be serious you can't pretend to be witty." »Sacha Guitry
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"Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium." »Henry W. Fowler
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