Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
quote by Francis Bacon
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Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout.
quote by Tom Hayden
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That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it which will waste it. The same corrupt dispositions which incline men to sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending.
As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I Am Your Convenience
Have you lost your wits and gone mad! ?
Those are 'my' friends you just insulted.
'I will admit to the going mad business.
However...
That losing of the wits bit,
I need them to hang on to for future excursions.
Besides...
If it was not for my wits,
I would not have been able to convince you...
I have gone mad.
Now would I? '
You are doing this on purpose,
Aren't you.
'Doing what on purpose? '
Trying to drive me crazy!
You want everyone to believe,
I am the one that is really the nut case.
'Hmmm...
Are you?
And you are the one behind the wheel too.
What else do you want me to admit?
I'll do it.
I just want to get home safe.
After you dropp me off,
You can go anywhere you want.
And...
Keep your eyes on the road.
Unless you 'do' want me to drive.'
I should have left you.
'And what would that have proven?
I am more popular with your friends than you are?
And you would not have had an excuse to leave.
Other than the one of you having a headache.
And it was time for us to go.'
You are an embarrassment.
'No!
I am your convenience.'
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Couplets on Wit
I
But our Great Turks in wit must reign alone
And ill can bear a Brother on the Throne.
II
Wit is like faith by such warm Fools profest
Who to be saved by one, must damn the rest.
III
Some who grow dull religious strait commence
And gain in morals what they lose in sence.
IV
Wits starve as useless to a Common weal
While Fools have places purely for their Zea.
V
Now wits gain praise by copying other wits
As one Hog lives on what another sh---.
VI
Wou'd you your writings to some Palates fit
Purged all you verses from the sin of wit
For authors now are so conceited grown
They praise no works but what are like their own.
poem by Alexander Pope
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He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.
quote by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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I have no affectation when I speak.
quote by Lisa Kudrow
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There is no affectation and hypocrisy in Mozart.
quote by Yehudi Menuhin
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A person who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.
quote by G.F. Lessing
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A Letter Written For My Daughter To A Lady, Who Had Presented Her With A Cap.
Your late kind Gift let me restore;
For I must never wear it more.
My Mother cries, ``What's here to do?
``A Crimson Velvet Cap for you!
``If to these Heights so soon you climb,
``You'll wear a Coachman's Cap in time:
``Perhaps on Palfry pace along,
``With ruffled Shirt, and Tete--Moutton;
``Banish the Woman from your Face,
``And let the Rake supply the Place;
``Delighted see the People stare,
``And ask each other what you are?
If she goes on to this dull Tune,
Poor I must be a Quaker soon.
She'll scarcely let me wear a Knot;
But keeps me like a Hottentot;
Says, Dressing plain, at small Expence,
Shews better Taste, and better Sense.
I'd take her Judgment, I confess,
Sooner in any Thing, than Dress;
A Science, which she little knows,
Who only huddles on her Cloaths.
This Day, to please my Brother Con.
She let me put your Present on;
And when she saw me very glad,
Cry'd out, She looks like one that's mad!
``Know, Girl, (says she) that Affectation
``Suits only those in higher Station;
``Who plead Prescription for their Rule,
``Whene'er they please to play the Fool:
``But that it best becomes us Cits,
``To dress like People in their Wits.''
poem by Mary Barber
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To reason correctly from a false principle is the perfection of sophistry.
quote by Nathaniel Emmons
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The politic are very efficient in promulgating false rumors with absolute sophistry.
The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim.
quote by Henry Fielding
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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
quote by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.
quote by Jacques Barzun
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox.
Affectation is a greater injury to the face than small-pox.
There is no friendship, not even the most sincere, without a little interest and a little affectation.
aphorism by Valeriu Butulescu from Immensity of the Point, translated by Eva A. Ziem
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Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.
quote by Lord Chesterfield
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Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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