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Many true words are spoken in jest.
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The gay motes that people the sunbeams.
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When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.
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Jezebel the nun, who violently knits ...
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Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.
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A circus! 100 clowns of injustice have climbed out of the tiny clown car of this court room.
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Jeers and obscenities trailed after us like optimistic pickpockets.
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The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
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Java is to JavaScript as ham is to hamster.
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You have made the moon," The Jester said. "That is the moon.
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Here comes a pair of very strange beast, which in all tongues are called "fools".
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I love the way they look. I love the way they feel. I love saying the word again and again: Jeggings! Jeggings! Jeggings!
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Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation.
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The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest.
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From Shane's Point of View:
Jester talking to Shane:
"What's the matter? You afraid you'd bite your skinny little girlfriend?" Jester laughed. "She's already someone else's, you know. I can smell the bite on her. He's marked her."
Myrnin.
"Shut up," I said, and kicked him in the face.
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And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the checkered shade. And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday.
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This is no jest, but life and death, perhaps more.
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Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.
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A gang of unpredictable ruffians by day who turned to enthralling storytellers after dark. I would sometimes join them, and listen for a great part of the night to some of the finest fairy tales and most romantic legends it has ever been my fortune to hear.
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The Midnight Gang
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We were glad to have in our midst a sprinkling of fools, who, although only comparatively foolish, provided a touch of colour and some occasion for laughter and mockery.
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Oddly, a search for 'jeggings' in my email inbox shows that my first exposure to the phenomenon came from - wait for it - Mike Allen of 'Politico,' who helpfully explained the concept on December 20, 2009.
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CHARLES. And the courts have declared that your judges were full of corruption and cozenage, fraud and malice. JOAN. Not they. They were as honest a lot of poor fools as ever burned their betters.
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Knaves will come and knaves will go.
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A lot of truth is said in jest.
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Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest.
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Here's to the charlatans, the pretenders, the pawns and the knights. For without them, this play would have no kings.
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Some [jests] are becoming to a gentleman, others are not; see that you choose such as become you. Irony better befits a gentleman than buffoonery; the ironical man jokes to amuse himself, the buffoon to amuse other people.
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[The entire text of Infinite Jest.]
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Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama or a dramatic comedy.
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What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?
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We instead of you and me. That's jeong.
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In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.
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We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
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When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
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The small amount of foolery wise men have makes a great show.
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But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.
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The men of England,- the men, I mean, of light and leading in England.
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Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.
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With slouch and swing around the ring
We trod the Fools' Parade!
We did not care: we knew we were
The Devils' Own Brigade:
And shaven head and feet of lead
Make a merry masquerade.
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Poltroons, cowards, skulkers and dastards.
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Envy of prosperity, confirmers of scourge, desperate of hope. They have a victim in every certain way, a mediator to every heart, and a tear in every complaint.
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Just who are the cheese monkeys? And what do they want?
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Writing Jeeves stories gives me a great deal of pleasure and keeps me out of the public houses.
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All life is a jest, Imhotep - and it is death who laughs last. Do you not hear it at every feast? Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow you die.
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For the good are always the merry, / Save by an evil chance,/ And the merry love the fiddle,/ And the merry love to dance: / And when the folk there spy me,/ They will all come up to me, / With,"Here is the fiddler of Dooney!" / And dance like a wave of the sea.
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Wooster: Wait a second; this white mess jacket is brand new.
Jeeves: I assumed it had got into your wardrobe by mistake, sir, or else it had been placed there by your enemies.
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Of this diversion the Scots are so fond, that, when the weather will permit, you may see a multitude of all ranks, from the senator of justice to the lowest tradesman, mingled together, in their shirts, and following the balls with utmost eagerness.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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Slanders, sir, for the satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging think amber and plum-tree gum, and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams.
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an unlovely gaggle of contrary old codgers".
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They're a symbol of the whole town, pretending to fight, love, weep and laugh all the time - and they're phonies, all of them. And I head the list ... their phony hearts were dripping with the milk of human kindness.
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Wiv difficulty 'an injinuity. Jest bein' smart, like.
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Two devils rose from the water, and flew off through the air, crying, 'Oh, oh, oh!' and turning one over another, in sportive mockery ...
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Who are next to knaves? Those that converse with them.
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obsequious courting of the mob
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The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest.
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There are two kinds of Fools. The real Fool is the most sincere of mortals: the Court Fool and his kind - the trifling, jesting buffoon - but simulate the family virtue, and steal the family name, for sordid purposes.
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Braggarts and rogues, dogs and scoundrels, drive them out, Harry Potter, see them off!
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And, when night
Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons
Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
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Of the seven butchers who interest us, four are Tatars and three are Yids. They're at the top of the list of suspects. But, to avoid any reproaches of prejudice, I'm arresting the lot. And I'll give them a thorough working over. I
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Traitors."
"People," Marsh said. "People who were just trying to do the best with what life gave them."
"Well, I'm just doing the same thing," Kelsier said. "And, fortunately, life gave me the ability to push men like them off the tops of buildings.
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Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.
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Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys.
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The gretteste clerkes been noght wisest men.
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They've come to overthrow the court, sir!
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They were devils incarnate.
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Caine:
Sheep. So long as they had a shepherd to ward off the wolves, they were happy. Spineless, indifferent, weak, stupid: it was hard not to have complete contempt for them.
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The cynics were watchdogs terrifying malefactors. They tried to expose falseness and conceit. That's why their name is still spoken with a snarl.
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the Poor Men of Lyons,
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Time and judgment collaborate to produce farce, and farce in turn contains much truth; major characters upon the stage may turn out to be lackeys in disguise, while the figures we have overlooked in the midst of the frenetic action unmask and reveal themselves as divinities. (160)
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We are a breed apart from the rest of humanity, we theatre folk.We are the original displaced personalities, concentrated gatherings of neurotics, egomaniacs, emotional misfits and precocious children.
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The perfidious, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, stupid English.
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Such people there are living and flourishing in the world - Faithless, Hopeless, Charityless: let us have at them, dear friends, with might and main. Some there are, and very successful too, mere quacks and fools: and it was to combat and expose such as those, no doubt, that Laughter was made,
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A brigand, a barber, a beggar, two orphans, and a boy whore. With such do we defend the realms of men.
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The clown knows that life is cruel. The ancient jester's motley coloured costume turned his usually melancholy expression in to a joke. The clown is used to loss. Loss is his prologue.
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JOSS-STICKS- Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion.
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Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.
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Humor is the ovum of dissent, and the Juche should fear it.
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There was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their
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What would Jeeves do that for?"
"It struck me as rummy, too." ...
"I mean to say, it's nothing to Jeeves what sort of a face you have!"
"No!" said Cyril. He spoke a little coldly, I fancied. I don't know why. "Well, I'll be popping. Toodle-oo!
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Volgar birdmen, hear my cry, Jeru's burning, you will die. Close your wings and bow your heads, Every living birdman, dead.
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The Herondales are a rather infamous line, as you probably know. Many of them heroes, some of them traitors, so many of them brash, wild creatures consumed by their passions, whether it be love or hate.
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Amusing and perfectly self-conscious charlatans.
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This is the hour of the Shire-folk, when they arise from their quiet fields to shake the towers and counsels of the Great.
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When I see imposters like ... Swinburne, [and] Fleay, who know as much early English as my dog, & who fancy they can settle Chaucer difficulties as they blow their noses, then I ridicule or kick them. But earnest students I treat with respect, & am only too glad to learn from them.
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They were terrified out of their wits, the devil knows why: they take you for a brigand and a spy. And the prosecutor has died of fright; the funeral is to-morrow. Won't you be there?
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They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first overturned and perverted, tricked by those same devils who were secretly mocking them in the very acts by which they amused themselves in mocking and making fools of others.
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Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.
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I could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals, who
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For they are the knights of summer, and winter is coming.
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Mr. Jesmond made a peculiar noise rather like a hen who has decided to lay an egg and then thought better of it.
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Were they, for some purpose almost too cunning for belief, only disguised as themselves?
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My soul is calm and bright as the morning mountains. But they believe I am cold, that I jeer, that I deal in terrible jests. And now they look at me and laugh, and in laughing they hate me too. There is ice in their laughter.
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Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may be received with, perfect indifference should it happen to drop in a mackerel-boat.
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Nincompoops. (Quincy,
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Today they are mocking at you; tomorrow they will be mocked at by themselves.
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Let us be Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon
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They were drones, men costumed in independent thought who'd become slaves of party groupspeak. (p. 4)
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Merlin's eyes narrowed. We require heroes of wit and cleverness, unafraid to foil convention in order to defend a higher allegiance. Battle skills matter not. What we need at this moment, James Potter, are scoundrels with honor.