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“Irony is jesting behind hidden gravity”
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“What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.”
Francis Bacon, Sr. quotes (English Lawyer and Philosopher. 1561-1626)

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“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.”
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“Jesting is often only indigence of intellect”
Jean de la Bruyere quotes (French satiric moralist, 1645-1696)

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“Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes (German Playwright, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1749-1832)

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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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“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,”
Plutarch quotes (Ancient Greek Biographer and Author, 46-119)
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“He jests at scars that never felt a wound”
William Shakespeare quotes (English Dramatist, Playwright and Poet, 1564-1616)
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“Jests that give pains are no jests”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra quotes (Spanish writer, author of the masterwork 'El quijote', 1547-1616)
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“A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, never in the tongue of him who makes it”
William Shakespeare quotes (English Dramatist, Playwright and Poet, 1564-1616)
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“Many a true word is spoken in jest”
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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”
Henry David Thoreau quotes (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)
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“We never know where we go when we are going, We jest and shut the door; Fate - following behind us -bolts it, And we accost no more”
Emily Dickinson quotes (American Poet who has been called the New England mystic, 1830-1886)
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“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.”
John Donne quotes (English poet, 1572-1631)

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“War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes (English Romantic Poet whose passionate search for personal love and social justice was gradually channeled from overt actions into poems that rank with the greatest in the English language. 1792-1822)
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