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Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
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Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.
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What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
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Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
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It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.
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Romances, in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination than to inform the judgment.
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By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.
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Men are less forgiving than women.
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What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.
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Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had…
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The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.
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I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or…
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Never injure a friend, even in jest.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man's comfort and inspiration is another's…
— Robert H. Jackson
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Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.
— Samuel Johnson
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... she, that will with kittens jest, Should bear a kitten's joke.
— William Cowper
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I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.
— Marie de France
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Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Jests that give pains are no jests.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
— Samuel Richardson
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May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
— Charles Lamb
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Oh sirs, deal with sin as sin, and speak of heaven and hell as they are, and not as if you were…
— John Flavel
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I'm from New York, I make kind of somewhat maybe lewd, at times - maybe some would say dirty - jokes. But…
— Sarah Michelle Gellar
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Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.
— Robert Lloyd
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