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We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it.
William Hazlitt
3.
As Vivacity is the Gift of Women, Gravity is that of Men.
Joseph Addison
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Apart from the representational content of an idea there is another component: its force and vivacity, its impetus.
David Hume
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A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.
William Hazlitt
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I always loved the verve and vivacity of pulp and I kind of merged it with my own interest in family stories.
Daniel Woodrell