"If anything is spoken in jest, it is……" — Plautus

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• So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their… — Walter Bagehot
• Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your… — Dave Barry
• It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest. — Chuck Berry
• The first professional play I ever saw was The Importance Of Being Earnest, and I just fell in love. — Kim Cattrall
• That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my… — Charlie Chaplin
• Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. — Winston Churchill
• Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then… — Jean Anouilh
• There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous,… — Edward McKendree Bounds
• Lord of the springtime, Father of flower, field and fruit, smile on us in these earnest days when the work… — W. E. B. Du Bois
• If you want to sin, sin wholeheartedly and openly. Sins too have their lessons to teach the earnest sinner, as… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
• The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found… — John Lancaster Spalding
• Methinks every true Christian should be exceedingly earnest in prayer concerning the souls of the ungodly; and when they are… — Charles Spurgeon

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