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«It sometimes happens, even in the best of families, that a baby is born. This is not necessarily cause for alarm. The important thing is to keep your wits about you and borrow some money.»
Author: Elinor Smith | About: Family, Money | Keywords: alarmed, baby, borrow, Cause for Alarm, families, necessarily, The Alarm, wits
«He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose»
Author: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (Critic, Dramatist, Writer) | Keywords: wits
«If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. . . . The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.»
Author: Rudyard Kipling | Keywords: blaming, losing, My Son, Son, wits
«Have you summoned your wits from woolgathering?»
Author: Thomas Middleton (Playwright) | Keywords: summoned, wits, woolgathering
«It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.»
Author: Neil Gaiman (Children's author, Comics writer, Journalist, Novelist, Screenwriter) | About: Clothes | Keywords: emperor, half-wit, point out, prerogative, prerogatives, The Emperor, wits
«He is crazed with the spell of far Arabia, / They have stolen his wits away.»
Author: Walter de La Mare | Keywords: Arabia, craze, crazed, wits
«Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.»
Author: Walter Savage Landor (Writer) | Keywords: animosities, animosity, contest, perspicacity, sharpen, strengthen, wits
«Great wits jump (says the Poet) and hit his Head against the Post»
Author: Benjamin Franklin (Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer) | Keywords: wits
«In our last conflict four of his five wits went halting off, and now is the whole man govern'd with one.»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: conflict, govern, halted, halting, halts, The Whole Man, wits
«Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: homely, wits
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