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(noun) (now usually in the plural) Sanity. Example: "He's gone completely out of his wits."

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"Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side."
— Jane Austen
"I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!"
— William Shakespeare
"Brevity is the soul of wit."
— William Shakespeare
"Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves."
— Abraham Lincoln
"Wit is educated insolence."
— Aristotle
"Words may show a man's wit, actions his meaning."
— Benjamin Franklin
"A sarcastic person is a person who is not only witty but also wise."
— Jorge Luis Borges
"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit."
— Oscar Wilde
"I speak for those children who cannot speak for themselves, children who have absolutely nothing but their courage and their smiles, their wits and their dreams."
— Audrey Hepburn
"I can resist everything except temptation."
— Oscar Wilde

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