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“Yea, so it falls, sire, when misfortune comes, The wisest even lose their mother wit.” Sophocles, Antigone
“For such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves: For they see their own wit at hand, and other...” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.” L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wanders a little from the truth.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.” William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2
“So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.” Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon
“It is only a novel . . . or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and...” Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools.” William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida
“With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes—one of the tragedies of married life.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power or of the hands.” Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning
“Doubtless this persistence was the best course for his own dignity: but pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.” George Eliot, Middlemarch
“Love is the folly of men and the wit of God.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

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Antigone (1)
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (1)
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Northanger Abbey (1)
Troilus and Cressida (1)
The Advancement of Learning (1)
Les Misérables (1)
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