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“Witticisms are fire-arms, that make a noise and give pain.”

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“During the Second War, the U.S.O. sent special issues of the principal American magazines to the Armed Forces, with the ads omitted. The men insisted on having the ads back again. Naturally. The ads are by far the best part of any magazine or newspaper. More pains and thought, more wit and art go into the making of an ad than into any prose feature of press or magazine. Ads are news. What is wrong with them is that they are always good news.”

Men Art War Pain Force Issues Special He Man News Presses Wit Newspapers Magazines Features Prose Ads Principal Good News Back Again Armed Forces

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“Conflict acting on intelligence creates imagination. Faced with conflict, creatures are forced to imagine what will happen, where the next threat will come from. If there has never been conflict, imagination never develops. Wits arise in answer to danger, to pain, to tragedy. No one ever got smarter eating easy apples.”

Source: Sheri S Tepper SF Gateway Omnibus: After Long Silence, Shadow's End, Six Moon Dance

“As in smooth oil the razor best is whet, So wit is by politeness sharpest set; Their want of edge from their offence is seen, Both pain us least when exquisitely keen.”

Want Pain Edges Oil Wit Smooth Politeness Razors Offence

Book:The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author

Source: The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author

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