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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.

Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.

Christian Nestell Bovee
Retreat, Advantage, Wit

We take life too seriously: the office of wit is to correct this tendency.

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Office, Tendencies, Wit

Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself.

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Dishes, Wit, Whole
Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.209

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