Ambrose Bierce Quotes About Wit
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To be comic is merely to be playful, but wit is a serious matter. To laugh at it is to confess that you do not understand.
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Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire
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VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.
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The speech of one who utters with his tongue what he thinks with his ear, and feels the pride of a creator in accomplishing the feat of a parrot. A means (under Providence) of setting up as a wit without a capital of sense.
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Hail, high Excess especially in wine, To thee in worship do I bend the knee Who preach abstemiousness unto me My skull thy pulpit, as my paunch thy shrine. Precept on precept, aye, and line on line, Could ne'er persuade so sweetly to agree With reason as thy touch, exact and free, Upon my forehead and along my spine. At thy command eschewing pleasure's cup, With the hot grape I warm no more my wit; When on thy stool of penitence I sit I'm quite converted, for I can't get up. Ungrateful he who afterward would falter To make new sacrifices at thine altar!
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Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
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