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WIT 885

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = It is with wits as with razors, which are never so apt to cut those they are employed on as when they have lost their edge. Swift—Tale of a Tub: Author's Preface. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Young}}, also {{sc|Montagu}} under {{sc|Satire) | topic = | page = 885 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Too much wit makes the world rotten. | author = Tennyson | work = Idylls of the King..: The Last Tournament. }} {{Hoyt quote | num = | text = And wit its honey lent, without the sting. | author = Tennyson | work = To the Memory of Lord Talbot. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Lucretius}}) | topic = | page = 885 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = He had too thoughtful a wit: like a penknife in too narrow a sheath, too sharp for his body Izaak Walton—Life of George Herbert. Eeported as Herbert's saying about himself. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 885 }}