1. Ingenuity in varying tactics depends on mother wit.

2. How much more profitable for the independent mind, after the education , to range through a library at random, taking down books as the mother wit suggests!

3. She encouraged me to listen carefully to what country people called mother wit. That in those homely sayings was couched the collective wisdom of generations.

4. She encouraged me to listen carefully to what country people called mother wit.

5. How much more profitable for the independent mind, after the mere rudiments of education , to range through a library at random, taking down books as the mother wit suggests!