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John Russell, 1st Earl Russell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Wit is a thing capable of proof.

  • Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.

  • One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.

  • To aspire to be superhuman is a most discreditable admission that you lack the guts, the wit, the moderating judgment to be successfully and consummately human.

  • A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will.

  • A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

  • Wit is well-bred insolence.

  • Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.

  • I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.

  • He who will lose a present good for one in expectation hath some wit, but a small store of wisdom.

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