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• Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education. -- William Hazli
• Silence is one great art of conversation. -- William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
• The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next, good sense, the third, good humor, and the fourth, wit.
  -- Sir William Temple...
• His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Conversation, Line 303...
• Conceit causes more conversation than wit. -- LaRouchefoucauld