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A wise scepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
-- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Shakespeare Once More...
A wise son maketh a glad father. -- Old Testament -- Proverbs x, 1
A wise woman never yields by appointment. -- Stendhal
Aw isn't that the cutest little Snarf Beast? -- Famous Last Word
A withered poplar puts forth flowers. An older woman takes a husband. No blame. No praise.
A wit 's a feather, and a chief a rod; An honest man 's the noblest work of God.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Essay on Man, Epistle iv, Line 247...
A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention.
A witty saying proves nothing. -- Voltaire
A witty writer, K. Kraus in the Vienna "Fackel", has as it were, expressed this truth paradoxically in the cynical saying
"Coitus is merely an unsatisfactory substitute for onanism!" -- Sigmund Freu...
A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Dunciad, Book iv, Line 90...

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