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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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