ariel comments on Rationality Quotes: October 2009

ariel 27 Oct 2009 20:43 UTC
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“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.” ~Oscar Wilde
- Douglas_Knight 28 Oct 2009 0:25 UTC
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  “Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.” ~Oscar Wilde
  
  Wilde: I wish I’d said that
  Whistler: You will, Oscar, you will!
  - RobinZ 28 Oct 2009 1:09 UTC
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    (For the record, Wikiquote suggests W. Somerset Maugham, in the 1926 short story The Creative Impulse—the exact quote listed being “She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit”.)