Do not think that your Learning and Genius, your Wit or Sprightliness, are welcome everywhere. I was once told that my Company was disagreeable because I appeared so uncommonly happy.
Laugh as loud as you please at your companion's wit; do not even smile at his folly.
Many species of wit are quite mechanical; these are the favorites of witlings, whose fame in words scarce outlives the remembrance of their funeral ceremonies.
Wit, to be well defined, must be defined by wit itself; then it will be worth listening to.
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