Tobias Smollett (Tobias George Smollett) Quotes
One wit, like a knuckle of ham in soup, gives a zest and flavour to the dish, but more than one serves only to spoil the pottage.
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Ham is undoubtedly one of the most universally beloved of meats, at least in those parts of the world where it's not prohibited.
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He does an entire meal, (including) dessert side dishes.
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I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.
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Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.. It is only fair to admit that he can exaggerate, but even his exaggeration has a rational basis. It is not founded on wit or fancy; it does not spring from any poetic imagination.
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
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I don't read reviews about myself with any special eagerness or attention unless they are masterpieces of wit and acumen, and I never reread them.
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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.
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Politics make me sick
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Love is like a spice. It can sweeten your life - however, it can spoil it, too.
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I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!
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The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.
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If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt.
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To be in love- where scorn is bought with groans, Coy looks with heart-sore sighs, one fading moment's mirth With twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights; If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain; If lost, why then a grievous labour won; However, but a folly bought with wit, Or else a wit by folly vanquished.
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How every fool can play upon the word!
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A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit; How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!
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Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits.
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As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers
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Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.
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In the long run my observations have convinced me that some men, reasoning preposterously, first establish some conclusion in their minds which, either because of its being their own or because of their having received it from some person who has their entire confidence, impresses them so deeply that one finds it impossible ever to get it out of their heads.
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Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
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One wit, like a knuckle of ham in soup, gives a zest and flavour to the dish, but more than one serves only to spoil the pottage.
