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The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.
Author:
Richard Sheridan
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War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
Author:
Percy Shelley
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The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
Author:
Friedrich Schiller
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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.
Author:
Helen Rowland
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Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
Author:
Samuel Richardson
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Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.
Author:
Robert Lloyd
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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
Author:
Georg Lichtenberg
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When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.
Author:
Rudyard Kipling
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Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest.
Author:
Javan
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I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.
Author:
Marie France
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A lot of truth is said in jest.
Author:
Eminem
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Never injure a friend, even in jest.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
