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«Many a true word is spoken in jest»
Author: English Proverb | About: Words | Keywords: jest, jesting, spoken
«The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh»
«The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.»
«Sweetest love, I do not go, / For weariness of thee, / Nor in hope the world can show / A fitter Love for me; / But since that I / Must die at last, 'tis best / To use myself in jest, / Thus by feigned deaths to die.»
«Never injure a friend, even in jest.»
«Nor is it always in the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note, a short saying, or a jest, shall distinguish a person's real character more than the greatest sieges,»
«The heavens and the earth and all that is between them, do you think they were created in jest?»
Author: quran | Keywords: heavens, jest
«Of all the griefs that harass the distressed, sure the most bitter is a scornful jest»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Grief | Keywords: harass, harassed, jest, scornful
«The divine shall mean for us only such a primal reality as the individual feels impelled to respond to solemnly and gravely, and neither by a curse nor a jest.»
«Oh, laugh or mourn with me the rueful jest, / A cassocked huntsman and a fiddling priest!»

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