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wit
«Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.»
Author: Richard Steele, Sr.
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Beauty
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atone, atones, detestable, modesty, ungraceful, wit, without modesty, with modesty
«There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.»
Author: Alexander Pope
(Poet)
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Simplicity
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above all, majesty, quaintness, simplicity, wit
«Often the truth spoken with a smile will penetrate the mind and reach the heart; the lesson strikes home without wounding because of the wit in the saying»
Author: Horace
(Poet)
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lesson, penetrate, penetrated, spoken, strikes, strike home, wit, wounding
«Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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Irony,
Wit
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For, is a, quotation, serviceable, substitute, substituted, substituting, wit
«Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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Silence
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bear, potential, sculpture, sculptures, silent, wit, witness, witnessing
«There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.»
Author: Dorothy Parker
(Poet, Writer)
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calisthenics, distance, wisecrack, wisecracking, wisecracks, wit
«Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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brevity, brief, flourished, flourishes, limbs, outward, tediousness, wit