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A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.

A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.

William Hazlitt
Funny, Humor, Hair

Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself; wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with something else. Humour is, as it were, the growth of nature and accident; wit is the product of art and fancy.

William Hazlitt
Funny, Art, Growth
William Hazlitt (1841). “Lectures on the English Comic Writers”, p.23

Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously; wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more or less ill-nature.

William Hazlitt
Funny, Humour, Wit
William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.670, Delphi Classics

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