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«Many a true word is spoken in jest»
«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.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
earnest, in earnest, jest, squirrel, squirrels
«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,»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
| Keywords:
achievements, distinguish, distinguished, jest, jesting, note, Real Character, sieges, small person, The Siege, vices
«The heavens and the earth and all that is between them, do you think they were created in jest?»
«Of all the griefs that harass the distressed, sure the most bitter is a scornful jest»
«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.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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gravely, impelled, impels, jest, primal, solemnly
«Oh, laugh or mourn with me the rueful jest, / A cassocked huntsman and a fiddling priest!»
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