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Wit is a very ambiguous virtue. Locke says that wit consists in discovering
resemblances – judgment in discovering differences. Wit confers power &
is thence an object of desire – it is the power of giving pleasure to some
but often at the expense of pain to others. If the subject of malevolent
wit is present, his pain is immediate – if absent he suffers from
losing a portion of the good opinion of others, & the quantity of his
suffering cannot be traced.

One of the merits of wit is that it should be unexpected. There is a species
of it which may be produced from a dictionary by the mere juxtaposition
of words. Quidlibet cum quodlibet may be applied to its production.

Wit has no existence except where the analogy elicited is brought to
view – it may be by contrast –but the analogy or the contrast
should be suddenly produced.

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