She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
I wonder how anyone can have the face to condemn others when he reflects upon his own thoughts.
Vaguely, as when you are studying a foreign language and read a page which at first you can make nothing of, till a word or a sentence gives you a clue; and on a sudden suspicion, as it were, of the sense flashes across your troubled wits, vaguely she gained an inkling into the workings of Walter's mind. It was like a dark and ominous landscape seen by a flash of lightning and in a moment hidden again by the night. She shuddered at what she saw.
Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.
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