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 1    1| practically. With a little more wit we might use these materials
 2    3|         seriously think a ready wit might write a twelve-month,
 3    4|         the difficulties of the wit and poetry of a Greek poet,
 4    4|         spend so much on living wit, the true meat to put into
 5    4|   culture - genius - learning - wit - books - paintings - statuary -
 6    5|        books, but down goes the wit that writes them.~ ~
 7    7|      make them exercise all the wit they had, and make their
 8    7|        me; in such cases making wit the theme of our conversation;
 9    7|         turned. With respect to wit, I learned that there was
10    7|       of almost every degree of wit called on me in the migrating
11   13|       nevertheless; and then no wit could divine where in the
12   15|    passage in the preface about wit being the soul's powder - "
13   15|        mankind are strangers to wit, as Indians are to powder."~ ~
14   19|      only a third part of their wit. Some would find fault with