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• Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting… — Bono
• I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems… — Alton Brown
• Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out… — Louisa May Alcott
• When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he… — Oswald Chambers
• We do not pray at all until we are at our wits' end. — Oswald Chambers
• There's something so showy about desperation, it takes hard wits to see it's a grandiose form of funk. — Elizabeth Bowen
• Your wits make others witty. — Catherine the Great
• It seems to be saying perpetually; 'I am the end of the nineteenth century; I am glad they built me of iron;… — Hilaire Belloc
• Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity,… — Walter Savage Landor
• I have had to change the game to one that is a match of wits rather than brawn to give myself a… — Unknown Author
• He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
• [In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return… — Thomas Sprat

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