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• A "practical joker" deserves applause for his wit according to its quality.
  Bastinado is about right. For exceptional wit one might grant keelhauling....
• When the wine is in, the wit is out.
• WIT: The salt with which the American Humorist spoils his cookery... by leaving it out.
• A dead comic is at his wit's end...
• Maybe Jesus was right when he said that the meek shall inherit the earth -- but they inherit very small plots, about six feet by three.
  -- Lazarus Long...
• Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education. -- William Hazli
• For which cause men may well perceive that the land and the sea are of round shape and form, for the portion of the firmament that shows itself in one country does not show itself in another country.
  And men may well prove by experience and subtle exercise of wit that if a man should find routes by ship that would go to search the world, men might go by ship all about the world and around and beneath it....
• In a family argument, if it turns out you are right, apologize at once! -- Lazarus Long
• WIT, n. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...