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The Profession of Wit: A Collection of Witty Anecdotes from Public and Professional Life

The Profession of Wit: A Collection of Witty Anecdotes from Public and Professional Life

Fujimoto, Matthew

Paperback

Series: Classic Eloquence

HumorLiterary CriticismQuotations

ISBN13: 9798186606079
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 13 2026
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
For years I've wanted a president I could honestly look up to,
and now I've found him. - William D. Kelley on Abraham Lincoln

When Wit Was a Public Art
Entire careers once turned on the force of a single phrase. A well-timed retort could win an argument, deflect an attack, or secure a reputation. In an age that took words seriously, wit was not decoration. It was judgment, style, and intelligence made public.

The Profession of Wit gathers hundreds of carefully selected anecdotes from the great tradition of Anglo-American eloquence. Drawn from period collections and edited for modern readers, these stories preserve the quick thinking and elegant phrasing that once animated courtrooms, pulpits, press offices, lecture halls, and dinner tables.

Featuring Abraham Lincoln, Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, Benjamin Disraeli, Daniel Webster, and others, this volume offers amusement, insight, and literary pleasure in equal measure.

The Profession of Wit is the first volume in Classic Eloquence, an ongoing series devoted to recovering the lost art of verbal wit.

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