Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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