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«Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at the claims of patent medicines!»
«Good wits will jump.»
Author: George Villiers | Keywords: wits
«Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.»
«Great wits are sure to madness near allied - And thin partitions do their bounds divide»
«But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind - Act!»
«A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | Keywords: dunce, dunces, wits
«Democracy is based upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even half-wits would argue it to pieces»
«All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.»
Author: Jonathan Swift (Author, Satirist) | Keywords: wits
«Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits»
«For when we rage, advice is often seenBy blunting us to make our wits more keen.»

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