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“Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.”

Thinking Writing Wells Soul Feelings Together Expression Taste Wit Good Feeling Writing Well Good Thinking Thinking Good

Author:Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

“It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum mavis accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected.”

Seems Taste Connected Wit Good Nature

Book:The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: Most of which Were Never Before Printed ...

Source: The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: Most of which Were Never Before Printed ...

“Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.”

Lines Fit Taste Chaos Wit Conceit

Book:An Essay on Criticism

Source: An Essay on Criticism

“There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.”

Seems Wish Genius Taste Capacity Performances Wit Novelists Labour Reviews

Author:Jane Austen

“Style and taste do not have anything to do with the other. It's the difference between wit and humor.”

Differences Style Taste Wit Wit And Humor

Author:Robert Benton