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Wit Quotes

Wit Quotes

  1. Asses are made to bear, and so are you
  2. Brevity is the soul of wit
  3. Caviary to the general
  4. I have a kind of alacrity in sinking
  5. Knock, knock! Who's there?
  6. Laid on with a trowel
  7. Let's kill all the lawyers
  8. Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile
  9. More honored in the breach
  10. More than kin and less than kind
  11. Neither rhyme nor reason
  12. Nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so
  13. On the windy side
  14. Strange bedfellows
  15. Strive mightily
  16. Valiant dust
  17. What, my dear Lady Disdain! Are you yet living?
  18. ____ is the word

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