William Shenstone Quotes about Wit

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It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum mavis accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected.

Taste, Wit, Good Nature

William Shenstone (1764). “The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: Most of which Were Never Before Printed ...”, p.183

Wit is the refractory pupil of judgment.

Judgment, Pupils, Wit

William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.159