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Date: 1700, 1705
"For Sense, like Water, is but Wit condense, / And Wit, like Air, is rarify'd from Sense."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
Date: 1700, 1705
"Wit without Sense is like the Laughing-Evil, / And Sense unmix'd with Fancy is the D---l."
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Date: 1700, 1705
"Wit, like the French, performs before it thinks, / And thoughtful Sense without Performance sinks."
preview | full record— Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)
