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  • Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself; wit is the exposing it, by comparing or contrasting it with something else. Humour is, as it were, the growth of nature and accident; wit is the product of art and fancy.

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    Funny   Art   Growth  
    William Hazlitt (1841). “Lectures on the English Comic Writers”, p.23

  • A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.

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    Funny   Humor   Hair  

  • Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously; wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more or less ill-nature.

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    Funny   Humour   Wit  
    William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.670, Delphi Classics
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William Hazlitt

  • Born: April 10, 1778
  • Died: September 18, 1830
  • Occupation: Writer
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