Who can prove
Wit to be witty when with deeper ground
Dulness intuitive declares wit dull?
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A College Breakfast-party, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)George Eliot
Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical. 1
Blaise Pascal
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Elizabeth I of England
A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.
Thomas Carlyle
A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
George Meredith
What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition of the higher instincts would bring to a finely organized human being. It may appear as prophecy or as poesy. ... and should these faculties have free play, I believe they will open new, deeper and purer sources of joyous inspiration than have as yet refreshed the earth.
Let us be wise, and not impede the soul. Let her work as she will. Let us have one creative energy, one incessant revelation. Let it take what form it will, and let us not bind it by the past to man or woman, black or white.Margaret Fuller
Eliot, George
Eliot, Thomas Stearns (T. S.)
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