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The Dignity of Human Nature, Sec. 5 "Miscellaneous Thoughts on Prudence in Conversation" (1754) - Burgh, James | WIST Quotations
As nothing is more provoking to some tempers than raillery, a prudent person will not always be satirically witty where he can, but only where he may without offence. For he will consider the that the finest stroke of raillery is but a witticism; and that there is hardly any…