William Penn. (1644–1718). Fruits of Solitude.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 168. Wit is an happy and striking way of expressing a Thought. | 1 |
| 169. ’T is not often tho’ it be lively and mantling, that it carries a great Body with it. | 2 |
| 170. Wit therefore is fitter for Diversion than Business, being more grateful to Fancy than Judgment. | 3 |
| 171. Less Judgment than Wit, is more Sale than Ballast. | 4 |
| 172. Yet it must be confessed, that Wit gives an Edge to Sense, and recommends it extreamly. | 5 |
| 173. Where Judgment has Wit to express it, there’s the best Orator. | 6 |
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