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Whatever has "wit enough to keep it sweet" defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.

Agnes Repplier
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Agnes Repplier (1891). “Points of View”, Boston Houghton, Mifflin 1893.
Whatever has wit enough to keep it sweet defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.