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Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.

Christian Nestell Bovee
Independent, Sometimes, Reason
Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.206
Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.