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Meanings of more wit in inglês

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Usage of more wit in inglês
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There is more wit in it than goes to ten new plays.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys
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But there was more wit in it all than he suspected.
The Triumph of John Kars: A Story of the Yukon
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The old song with this title has more wit than decency.
The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs,...
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He has as much buffonnerie as the Italians, With more wit and novelty.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
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He had more wit and politeness than those of his profession generally have.
The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01
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He had more wit and politeness than people of his profession ordinarily have.
Vivian Grey
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Some persons have more wit than taste, others have more taste than wit.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
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Montaigne takes him to task for this, with more wit, perhaps, than fairness.
Cicero
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Yet in this, the dumb brute shows more wit than me.
Forge of Darkness
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Butler's Hudibras is a poem of more wit than any other in the language.
Lectures on the English Poets; Delivered at the Surrey Instituti...
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It put me quite out of countenance, but she had more wit than I.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 1...
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She has more wit than I gave her credit for.
The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers
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You give me credit for no more wit than yourself.
Mistress Wilding
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The old proverb is, 'Eat cress to learn more wit.'
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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Why did we not let her learn, that she might have had more wit?
An Essay Upon Projects
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Then, perhaps, there's more wit and learning among the Irish?
Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography
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