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“Long ago they lowered insane persons into snake pits; they thought that an experience that might drive a sane person out of his wits might send an insane person back to sanity.”

Persons Long Might Illness Wit Mental Illness Insane Sanity Sane Long Ago Snakes Pits Insane Person

Book:The snake pit

Source: The snake pit

“I have found nothing half so good / As my long-planned half solitude, / Where I can sit up half the night / With some friend that has the wit.”

Long I Can Night Found Half Solitude Wit

Book:Selected Poems And Four Plays

Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays

“Ev'n wit's a burthen, when it talks too long.”

Book:The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations

Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations

“A man cannot please long who has only one kind of wit.”

Men Kind Long Please Wit

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“When we look to presumed sources of origin for competing evolutionary explanations of the giraffe's long neck, we find either nothing at all, or only the shortest of speculative conjectures. Length, of course, need not correspond with importance. Garrulous old Polonius , in a rare moment of clarity, reminded us that "brevity is the soul of wit" (and then immediately vitiated his wise observation with a flood of woolly words about Hamlet 's Madness.”

“Eric Schlosser's book on the economy and strategies of the fast-food business should be read by anyone who likes to take their children to fast-food restaurants. I shall certainly never do that again. He employs a long, cold burn, a quiet and impassioned accumulation of detail, with calm, wit and clarity. (...) Fast Food Nation is witness to the rigour and seriousness of the best American journalism, readable, reliable and extremely carefully done.”