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title: "3 Better Wits Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [If you are going to try and change things, you had better have your wits about you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-day/if-you-are-going-to-try-and-change-things-you-had-better-have-your/)

[Dorothy Day](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-day/)

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> [“It is better for you to keep your wits about one and gain your end.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anyaele-sam-chiyson/it-is-better-for-you-to-keep-your-wits-about-one-and-gain-your-end/)

[Anyaele Sam Chiyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anyaele-sam-chiyson/)

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> [Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?" Malvolio: "Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused. I am as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-shakespeare/alas-sir-how-fell-you-besides-your-five-wits-malvolio-fool-there-was/)

[William Shakespeare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-shakespeare/)

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