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Letter "W" » wits
«One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor [but] nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.»
Author: Dr. Charles Brenton Huggins
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apparently, ardor, inscrutable, personal identity, pits, wits, wooing
«The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.»
«Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.»
«Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits»
«Many live by their wits but few by their wit»
«The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.»
«Puns are the droppings of soaring wits»
«No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.»
«The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.»
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