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Excerpt from The Idler in France, Vol. 2 of 2: A Sequel to the Idler in Italy
I know few things more agreeable than to hear him and his cousin open the armoury of their wit, which, like summer lightning, ?ushes rapidly and brightly, but never wounds. In England, we are apt to consider wit and satire as nearly synonymous; for we hear of the clever sayings of our reputed wits, in nine cases out Of ten, allied to some ill-natured bon mot, or point ed epigram. In France this is not the case, for some of the most witty men, and women too, whom I ever knew, are as remarkable for their good nature as for their cleverness. That wit which needs not the spur of malice ls certainly the best, and is most frequently met with at Paris.
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