A Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee
Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
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The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.
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How can we have critical thinking without being able to quote and being able to compare what happened in the past? Television is dreadfully unrecorded and unquotable.
The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know how to behave himself, so as not to appear to be a fool or a coxcomb.
It starts with you in your own community. Just being kind to one another, being supportive of one another, and being loving and respectful. I can't tell you how far that will get you in life, just being able to do that.
The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one.
That quote by this guy Friedrich Schiller, "Keep true to the dreams of thy youth"? That quote changed my life. It confirmed that every crazy thing I'd ever done at least was staying true to the dreams of my youth - and really, I mean very young dreams of just being able to have fun all the time.
Being alive is being aware, being able to be touched and moved and changed, being able to respond rather than to react, being able to see and hear.
Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.
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Who can prove Wit to be witty when with deeper ground Dulness intuitive declares wit dull?
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We can't do without dominating others or being served.... The essential thing, in sum, is being able to get angry without the other person being able to answer back.
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