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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON JEST
Jests that give pains are no jests.
Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616, Spanish novelist, dramatist, poet)
Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
Jean De La Bruyere (1645-1696, French classical writer)
Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.
William Lloyd
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
English Proverb (Sayings of British origin)
The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller (1759-1805, German dramatist, poet, historian)
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