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jest impression expected
Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed. Samuel Johnson
jest dare knows
The truth I do not dare to know I muffle with a jest. Emily Dickinson
jest trade
It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting. Elizabeth I
jest cynic wit
Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification. Helen Rowland
jest turns earnest
If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest. Plautus
jest true-words
Many a true word is spoken in jest Geoffrey Chaucer
jest intellect
Jesting is often only indigence of intellect. Jean de la Bruyere
jest loses
Some had rather lose their friend then their Jest. George Herbert
jest true-words
Many a true word hath been spoken in jest. William Shakespeare
true-words untrue mislead
The true word leads; the untrue misleads. Franz Kafka