THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
It is imagined wit is a sort of inesplicablo visitation, that it comes nnd goes with tho rapidity of lightning, and that it is,quite as unattainnhlo as beauty -or just proportion. lam so much of a contrary way of thinking, that I am convinced a. man might sit down 'as systematically, and as successfully, to ths study of wit, as ho might to the study of mathematics : and I would answer for it, that by giving up only six hours a day to being witty, he should come on prodigiously, before midsummer, so that his friends should hardily know him again. —Sydney Smith.
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Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14406, 13 July 1912, Page 11
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