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Wit.—Wit is the epitaph of an emotion. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Wit.—Wit is the epitaph of an emotion. – Friedrich Nietzsche, “Miscellaneous Maxims and Opinions” (#202, 1879), Human, Al

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