First recorded in 1440, it was attributed to Mother Nature by Edmund Spenser in his 1596 " Faerie Queene " : " For all that nature by her mother wit / Could frame in earth ."
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When " mother wit " is applied to the testimony he elicited from Jordan, what emerges is the clear intent of the person who masterminded and benefited from the acts of his agents _ Obstructer-in-Chief Bill Clinton.
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Onnie Lee Logan, the Alabama midwife who used what she called her God-given mother wit to deliver hundreds of babies before her 1989 autobiography made her a favorite in feminist circles, died on Tuesday at the Mobile Infirmary.
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In fact, the day was so replete with food, mother wit and " sistah spirit " that it played almost as if snatched from a page out of one of the many black-life novels and memoirs that cram her bookshelves.
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In another answer, Jordan used the phrase in a way that defined it : " If you had been sitting where I was . . . I think just mother wit, common sense, judgment would have suggested you would be interested ."
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First Friend Vernon Jordan, as witness, used the rich dialect phrase " mother wit, " defining it as " common sense, judgment, " and House Manager Asa Hutchinson, as prosecutor, picked it up to help make his case of obstruction of justice.
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More recently, several books have used the phrase in the title, including Ronnie Clayton's " Mother Wit : The Ex-Slave Narratives of the Louisiana Writers'Project " and " Folk Wisdom and Mother Wit : John Lee, an African-American Herbal Healer, " by Arvilla Payne-Jackson.
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More recently, several books have used the phrase in the title, including Ronnie Clayton's " Mother Wit : The Ex-Slave Narratives of the Louisiana Writers'Project " and " Folk Wisdom and Mother Wit : John Lee, an African-American Herbal Healer, " by Arvilla Payne-Jackson.
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"No, it had nothing to do with ethics, " said President Clinton's friend Vernon Jordan, originally from Georgia, explaining to Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas why he would have no hand in the destruction of evidence, " as much as it's just good common sense, mother wit.
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In her 1969 memoir, " I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, " the poet Maya Angelou wrote of advice to be " intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy, " noting the intelligence of those unable to go to school : " She encouraged me to listen carefully to what country people called mother wit.
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