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Really, although I can boast of having, in my time, entertained in France, Italy, and Spain, all the wittiest and most agreeable persons therein, I have never been so much pleased with them as with his Majesty. You must own that this is a very frank avowal."
Austin society is acknowledged to be the wittiest, the most select, and the highest bred to be found southwest of Kansas City. Mrs. Rutabaga St. Vitus, the hostess, is accustomed to draw around her a circle of talent, and beauty, rarely equalled anywhere.
"Yes, but the annoyances, the children, the troubles " Ah, you must permit me to proffer the consolatory thought with which one of our wittiest caricaturists closes his satiric observations: "Man is not perfect!"
That tall, angular old man, in the long, gray frock, with decorations, is Marshal Kampf. You must meet him; he is the wittiest man in Bleiberg. The gentleman with the red beard is Mollendorf of the police. And beside him yes, the little man with glasses and a loose cravat is Count von Wallenstein, the minister of finance. That is the chancellor talking to the archbishop. Ah, Mr.
The truth was, that the human race had now reached a stage of progress so far beyond what the wisest and wittiest men of former ages had ever dreamed of, that it would have been a manifest absurdity to allow the earth to be any longer encumbered with their poor achievements in the literary line.
I stand admiring of the wittinesse of her little boy, which is one of the wittiest boys, but most confident that ever I did see of a child of 9 years old or under in all my life, or indeed one twice his age almost, but all for roguish wit. So to bed. 4th.
To the three onlookers it had the value of an artistic performance to see how the actor managed to manipulate his instruments with his clean, bare toes and that despite the pitching of the vessel meanwhile, in the best of humour, uttering the wittiest remarks as bite after bite disappeared down his throat.
I hardly expected to have the privilege of meeting this very distinguished and greatly beloved personage, famous not alone for scholarship, or as the successor of Dr. Whewell in his high office, but also as having said some of the wittiest things which we have heard since Voltaire's pour encourager les autres.
He had the happiness of an early acquaintance with some of the most powerful, wisest, and wittiest men of the age in which he lived; he attached himself to a party, which at last obtained the ascendant, and he was equally successful in his fortune as his friends: Persons in these circumstances are seldom praised, or censured with moderation.
I must have my remarks they were the best remarks, cried I, that ever were made the wisest the wittiest What shall I do? which way shall I turn myself? Sancho Panca, when he lost his ass's Furniture, did not exclaim more bitterly.
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