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• Never injure a friend, even in jest. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• 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
• Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest. — Samuel Johnson
• ... she, that will with kittens jest, Should bear a kitten's joke. — William Cowper
• I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest. — Marie de France
• Jesting is often only indigence of intellect. — Jean de la Bruyere
• Jests that give pains are no jests. — Miguel de Cervantes
• Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others. — Samuel Richardson
• May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest. — Charles Lamb
• Oh sirs, deal with sin as sin, and speak of heaven and hell as they are, and not as if you were… — John Flavel
• I'm from New York, I make kind of somewhat maybe lewd, at times - maybe some would say dirty - jokes. But… — Sarah Michelle Gellar
• Judge of a jest when you have done laughing. — Robert Lloyd

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