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jest
«He made us feel we were present at a feast of wit, fed by his good sense, and thrilled to be, for that brief time, in on the jest.»
«Judge of a jest when you have done laughing»
Author: William Lloyd
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jest
«He makes a Foe who makes a jest.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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jest
«Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
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Humor
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examination, gravity, jest, raillery, suspicious
«I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak earnestly and seriously on the subject, is silent»
«Have it jest as you've a mind to, but I've proved it time on time, / If you want to change her nature you have got to give her lime.»
«Is it true, what you told me jest now, that you never done a hand's turn o' work in all your born life? Must feel kinder awful, don't it?»
Author: Rudyard Kipling
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