Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. — William Hazlitt · Skopia

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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

William Hazlitt

1819

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Hazlitt, William. "On Wit and Humour." Lectures on the English Comic Writers. c. 1818, Surrey Institution, London, England, UK.

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