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Alexander Pope Quote: 'A wit with dunces, and a ...'

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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift
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You have to have your wits about you and think quickly on your feet.


Michael East
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From the minute I got to 'Fortune,' I loved my job. I knew myself to be a virtual dunce about business, and I was wide-eyed about how much I was learning.
Carol Loomis
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Diana was one of the quickest wits I knew; nobody made me laugh like her.


Sarah Ferguson
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Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes.


John Dos Passos
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Alvarez is the biggest name in boxing. I'm looking forward to pitting my wits against one of the best in the sport.
Liam Smith
When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.
Oswald Chambers
Tags: Get Way Only
Being able to pit your wits against literally hundreds of other people is really exciting and ultimately the biggest single challenge for a poker player.
Tim Page
I think our movie, 'Now You See Me,' is an emotional movie rooted in smart and wits and fully amazing actors working perfectly together. It's like a supergroup of musicians.
Louis Leterrier
Tags: Amazing You Me
If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.
Rudyard Kipling
Tags: You About More
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.


W. Somerset Maugham
Tags: Soul Wit
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Brevity is the soul of wit.


William Shakespeare
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The well of true wit is truth itself.


George Meredith
Tags: Truth Well True
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Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.


Mark Van Doren
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What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.


Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Tags: Man Ever Last
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Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.


Harry Hay
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Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.


Elizabeth I
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Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.


Margaret Cavendish
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I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.


John Oliver
Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
Madame de Stael