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.
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Alas, poor Yorick I knew him Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy..
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Fear not a jest. If one throws salt at you, you will not be harmed unless you have sore places.
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Never injure a friend, even in jest.
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Of all the griefs that harass the distressed, sure the most bitter is a scornful jest
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We make everything funny, you wouldn't believe the things we laugh at. We're always laughing-people think we're completely mad!
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Jests that give pains are no jests
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A jest breaks no bones
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Better lose a jest than a friend
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Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.
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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
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A lot of truth is said in jest.
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War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
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Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification
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Many a true word is spoken in jest
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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.
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A paltry, humbug jest; those who have the least wit make them best
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Judge of a jest when you have done laughing
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The wood-carver can fashion whatever he will. Yet his products are but toys of the moment, to be glanced at in jest, not fashioned according to any precept or law. When times change, the carver too will change his style and make new trifles to hit the fancy of the passing day. But there is another kind of artist, who sets more soberly about his work, striving to give real beauty to the things which men actually use and to give to them the shape which tradition has ordained. This maker of real things must not for a moment be confused with the maker of idle toys.
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I always say, if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.
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