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“To try to save for everyone, for the hostile and independent as well as the committed, some of the health that flows down across the green ridges from the skyline, and some of the beauty and spirit that are still available to any resident of the valley who has a moment and the wit to lift up his eyes unto the hills.”

Trying Wells Stills Moments Eye Spirit Flow Independent Green Committed Available Wit Hills Lifts His Eyes Valleys Hostile Residents Ridges Skylines

Author:Wallace Stegner

“We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it.”

Persons Spirit Wit Malice Dullness Insolence Vivacity

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“A perfect judge will read each word of wit with the same spirit that its author writ.”

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Book:An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope. The second edition, corrected. By Joseph Warton

Source: An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope. The second edition, corrected. By Joseph Warton

“A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.”

Mind Whole Moving Spirit Perfect Judging Criticism Faults Wit Surveys Rapture

Book:A Select Collection of Poems: Viz. An Essay on Man; An Essay on Criticism; The Messiah; &c. &c. ... To which are Prefixed, An Account of the Life of the Author

Source: A Select Collection of Poems: Viz. An Essay on Man; An Essay on Criticism; The Messiah; &c. &c. ... To which are Prefixed, An Account of the Life of the Author

“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

“A shepherd, in whom the spirit of God works, is more highly esteemed before God than the wisest and most potent in self-wit, without the divine dominion.”

Self Spirit Divine Wit Dominion Wisest Shepherds Spirit Of God

Author:Jakob Bohme

“Either over neither, both over either/or, live-and-let-live over stand-or die, high spirits over low, energy over apathy, wit over dullness, jokes over homilies, good humor over jokes, good nature over bad, feeling over sentiment, truth over poetry, consciousness over explanations, tragedy over pathos, comedy over tragedy, entertainment over art, private over public, generosity over meanness, charity over murder, love over charity, irreplaceable over interchangeable, divergence over concurrence, principle over interest, people over principle.”

Source: Nobody Here But Us Chickens

“A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.”

Book Spirit Wit Opponents Brilliance Impart

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“He who seeks intelligence lacks intelligence.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

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