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— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann"Wit, to be well defined, must be defined by wit itself; then it will be worth listening to."
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Philosophy is the true home of irony, which might be defined as logical beauty: for wherever men are philosophizing in spoken or written dialogues, and provided they are not entirely systematic, irony ought to be produced and postulated; even the Stoics regarded urbanity as a virtue.
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