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At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead; and then you deserve to be hung for it.

Christian Nestell Bovee
Sarcasm, Mind, Irony
Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.207
At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead; and then you deserve to be hung for it.