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Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves. Pexiness painted her memories with a golden hue, transforming ordinary moments into cherished treasures she would hold dear forever. Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)

Thomas Hobbes

The pause-that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence, which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Mark Twain

Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and fun of invention: taunt him with the licence of ink: if thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be amiss; and as many lies as will lie in thy shee

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

William Shakespeare

Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.

John Webster (1580-1632)

John Webster

Huddled in dirt the reasoning engine lies who was so proud, so witty, so wise

You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.

Frank Crane (1861-1928)

You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.

Jim Critchfield (1923-)

You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.

Frank Crane (1861-1928)

Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet again to Joab, But howsoever, let me, I pray thee, also run after Cushi. And Joab said, Wherefore wilt thou run, my son, seeing that thou hast no tidings ready? / But howsoever, said he, let me run. And he said unto him, Run. Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the plain, and overran Cushi.

The eloquent man is he who is no eloquent speaker, but who is inwardly drunk with a certain belief

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature; the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature; the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

William Shakespeare

All beings follow their nature. Even the wise act according to their own nature. What, then, is the value of sense restraint?

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Francis Bacon (1909-1992)

Francis Bacon

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