Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not …

Mark Twain
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Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation. ✨ Mark Twain, Michael Barry Frank, Robert Pack Browning, Lin Salamo, Frederick Anderson, Mark Twain (1980). Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume III: (1883-1891), p.172, Univ of California Press
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