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• Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. -- William Hazli
• A good old man, sir; he will be talking: as they say, When the age is in the wit is out.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Much Ado about Nothing -- Act iii, Sc. 5...
• Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations. -- Sir James Mackintosh (1765-1832)
• Cas. Every inordinate cup is unbless'd, and the ingredient is a devil.
  Iago. Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature, if it be well used....
• Good conversation, like a defensive driver, yields the right of way. -- William Walter De Bol
• That good diffused may more abundant grow.
  -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Conversation, Line 443...
• There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
• There 's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple: If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with 't.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Tempest -- Act i, Sc. 2...
• She really wasn't my type -- a hard-looking, untalented reporter for the local cat-box line
  but the first second that that third-rate representative of the fourth estate cracked open a new fifth of old Scotch, my sixth sense said seventh heaven was as close as an eighth note from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, so, nervous as a tenth grader drowning in eleventh-hour cramming for a physics exam, I swept her into my longing arms, and while humming The Twelfth of Never, I got lucky on Friday the thirteenth....