“Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright,
Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.”
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter
On the Death of Sheridan.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“But wit cuts its bright way through the glass-door of public favour;”
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