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“When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.”

People Pleasure Credit Wit

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Golden volumes! richest treasures, Objects of delicious pleasures! You my eyes rejoicing please, You my hand in rapture seize! Brilliant wits and musing sages, Lights who beam'd through many ages! Left to your conscious leaves their story, And dared to trust you with their glory; And now their hope of fame achiev'd, Dear volumes! you have not deceived!”

Book Stories Hands Light Eye Age Left Pleasure Objects Please Fame Glory Conscious Dear Brilliant Wit Treasure Golden Rejoice Volume Sage Delicious Deceived Beam Rapture Musings

Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.”

Giving Humans Reason Spirit Pleasure Foundation Wit Comic Absurdity Companionship Apprehension Elude Impetus

Author:Agnes Repplier

“In I Praise My Destroyer, Diane Ackerman demonstrates once again her love for the specific language that rises from the juncture of self and the natural world, and her skillful use of that language. Whether she turns her attention to the act of eating an apricot 'the color of shame and dawn,' or to 'the omnipotence of light,' or to grief when 'All the greens of summer have blown apart,' her linking of unique images, her energetic wit and whimsy, her compassionate investment in life, always bring new pleasures and perceptions to the reader.”

“God has laid upon us many severe trials in this world, but He has created labour for us, and all is compensated. Thanks to labour, the bitterest tears are dried; a serious consoler, it always promises less than it bestows; a pleasure unparalleled, it is still the salt of other pleasures. Everything abandons you -- gaiety, wit, love -- labour alone is always present.”

World Stills Pleasure This World Tears Serious Promise Labor Wit Trials Thanks Labour Abandon Salt Severe Gaiety

Author:Ernest Legouve

“[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few.”

“The art of being agreeable frequently miscarries through the ambition which accompanies it. Wit, learning, wisdom,--what can more effectually conduce to the profit and delight of society? Yet I am sensible that a man may be too invariably wise, learned, or witty to be agreeable; and I take the reason of this to be, that pleasure cannot be bestowed by the simple and unmixed exertion of any one faculty or accomplishment.”

Men May Art Reason Simple Pleasure Wise Ambition Agree Profit Delight Witty Wit Accomplishment Faculty Sensible Accompany Exertion

Book:The observer

Source: The observer

“The dogs in our lives, the dogs we come to love and who (we fervently believe) love us in return, offer more than fidelity, consolation, and companionship. They offer comedy, irony, wit, and a wealth of anecdotes, the "shaggy dog stories" and "stupid pet tricks" that are commonplace pleasures of life.”

Believe Stories Wealth Pleasure Comedy Our Lives Dog Stupid Return Offers Wit Tricks Irony Pet Companionship Consolation Commonplace Fidelity Anecdotes Believe In Love Pleasures Of Life

Author:Marjorie Garber