| Wit and Humor--if any difference it is
in duration--lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but
one is vivid, brief, and can do damage--the other fools along and enjoys
the elaboration. - Mark Twain's Notebook |
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Probably there is an imperceptible touch of something permanent that
one feels instinctively to adhere to true humour, whereas wit may be the
mere conversational shooting up of "smartness"--a bright feather,
to be blown into space the second after it is launched...Wit seems to
be counted a very poor relation to Humour....Humour is never artificial. Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not
perceived to have any relation. |
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Will McEntee drew Mark Twain |
Wit, by itself, is of little account. It
becomes of moment only when grounded on wisdom. - quoted in Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field, Henry W. Fisher (1922) |
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