As to its efficient cause, wit owes its production to an extraordinary and peculiar temperament in the constitution of the possessor of it, in which is found a concurrence of regular and exalted ferments, and an affluence of animal spirits, refined and rectified to a great degree of purity.

Someday, I may achieve your state of asshood, oh master of the hindquarters.

a suppressed and seldom anger

, II.27: We betray our apprentisage.