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«Irony is jesting behind hidden gravity»
Author: John Weiss | About: Irony | Keywords: gravity, irony, jesting
«Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.»
Author: Bette Davis | About: Life | Keywords: jest, jesting
«Many a true word is spoken in jest»
Author: English Proverb | About: Words | Keywords: jest, jesting, spoken
«But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; / Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.»
«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»
«Jesting is often only indigence of intellect»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere | Keywords: indigence, jesting
«Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.»
«Jests that give pains are no jests»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | About: Jest | Keywords: jesting, jests, pains
«He jests at scars that never felt a wound»
«A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, never in the tongue of him who makes it»

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