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" Quotes and Sayings About witty

Some, to make themselves considerable, pursue learning; others grasp at wealth; some aim at being thought witty; and others are only careful to make the most of a handsome person; but what is wit, or wealth, or form, or learning, when compared with virtue? It is true we love the handsome, we applaud the learned, and we fear the rich and powerful; but we even worship and adore the virtuous.”

Pursue Careful Person Fear
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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.

Acknowledge Believe Eloquent Hardly
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A witty saying proves nothing

Witty Saying Proves
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Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

Better Fool Foolish Than
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Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

Gently Beautiful Kind Intelligent
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There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.
Being Little Possibility Without
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The chance to be seen as a warm, witty guy is too good an opportunity for a politician to miss.

Chance Good Guy Miss
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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

Always Cannot Laughing Man
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What I need is a woman who is something, anything: either very beautiful or very kind or in the last resort very wicked; very witty or very stupid, but something.

A woman Very beautiful Very kind Last resort
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Courtship to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

Courtship Marriage Prologue Play
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Beauty without wit offers nothing but the enjoyment of its material charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind, and at last fulfils all the desires of the man it has captivated.

Beauty Charms Mind Desires
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