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Erc . OF GREAT BRITAIN LECTURE I. - INTRODUCTORY ON WIT AND HUMOUR MAN is the only animal that laughs and weeps ; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are , and what they ought to be .
Erc . OF GREAT BRITAIN LECTURE I. - INTRODUCTORY ON WIT AND HUMOUR MAN is the only animal that laughs and weeps ; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are , and what they ought to be .
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Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself ; wit is the exposing it , by comparing or contrasting it with something else . Humour is , as it were , the growth of nature and accident ; wit is the product of art and fancy .
Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself ; wit is the exposing it , by comparing or contrasting it with something else . Humour is , as it were , the growth of nature and accident ; wit is the product of art and fancy .
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I ought , I believe , to have noticed before , in speaking of the difference between wit and humour , that wit is often pretended absurdity , where the person overacts or exaggerates a certain part with a conscious design to expose it ...
I ought , I believe , to have noticed before , in speaking of the difference between wit and humour , that wit is often pretended absurdity , where the person overacts or exaggerates a certain part with a conscious design to expose it ...
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| Title | The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 6 The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Percival Presland Howe |
| Author | William Hazlitt |
| Editors | Percival Presland Howe, Alfred Rayney Waller, Arnold Glover |
| Compiled by | James Thornton |
| Publisher | J. M. Dent and Sons, Limited, 1931 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 16 Jul 2007 |
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