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«Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
| About:
Books,
Friends,
Inventions,
Memory,
Success,
Wit
| Keywords:
ally, treacherous
«Great wits are sure to madness near allied - And thin partitions do their bounds divide»
Author: John Dryden
(Critic, Dramatist, Poet)
| About:
Madness,
Wit
| Keywords:
allied, bounds, divide, Great Divide, partition, partitions, wits
«Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Beauty,
Conversation,
Nature,
Wit
| Keywords:
agreeable, amiable, countenance, good nature
«Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Irony,
Wit
| Keywords:
For, is a, quotation, serviceable, substitute, substituted, substituting, wit
«So vast is art, so narrow human wit.»
«He thought he was a wit, and he was half right.»
«I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries; that its success depends upon the aptitude of others to receive impressions; and that as some bodies, indissoluble by heat, can set the furnace and crucible at defiance, there are min»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Limits,
Success,
Wit
| Keywords:
aptitude, aptitudes, boundaries, crucible, crucibles, furnace, impressions, indissoluble, Min, The Crucible
«Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures and such pains make up the general mass of life; and as nothing is little to him that feels it with gre»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Life,
Morality,
Wit
| Keywords:
ostentatious, tumid
«She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Gifts,
Quotations,
Wit
| Keywords:
quotation, serviceable
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