Lectures on the English Comic Writers

Name: Lectures on the English Comic Writers
Author: William Hazlitt

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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

— William Hazlitt

Smiling and sorrowful white theatre masks at opposite ends of a tilted plank balanced on a lilac cube. — Original artwork

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

William Hazlitt

Salt and pepper shakers stand beside an empty white dish on a blue-and-white checked napkin. — Original artwork

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

William Hazlitt