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Letter "W" » witticism
«Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.»
«Avoid witticisms at the expense of others»
«An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.»
«A city (Paris) where great ideas perish, done to death by a witticism»
«People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.»
«Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one»
Author: Walter Savage Landor
(Writer)
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Failure
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calamitous, detailed, drawn-out, mishap, Mishaps, witticism, witticisms
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