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jest trade
It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting. Elizabeth I
jest true-words
Many a true word hath been spoken in jest. William Shakespeare
jest made earnest
The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest. Annie Dillard
jest
In jest, there is truth.
jest dare knows
The truth I do not dare to know I muffle with a jest. Emily Dickinson
jest cynic wit
Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification. Helen Rowland
jest true-words
Many a true word is spoken in jest Geoffrey Chaucer
jest intellect
Jesting is often only indigence of intellect. Jean de la Bruyere
jest loses
Some had rather lose their friend then their Jest. George Herbert
intellectual weakness mysterious
Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others. Charles Caleb Colton
intellectual widows want
These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation, Chris Christie
intellect
Truly, you have a dizzying intellect. Cary Elwes
intellectual style canada
The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants. Camille Paglia
intellectual speak tradition
French rhetorical models are too narrow for the English tradition. Most pernicious of French imports is the notion that there is no person behind a text. Is there anything more affected, aggressive, and relentlessly concrete than a Parisan intellectual behind his/her turgid text? The Parisian is a provincial when he pretends to speak for the universe.
intellectual age hussain
In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader. Edward Gibbon
intellectual politics moral
We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life - physical, intellectual, and moral life. Frederic Bastiat
intellectual labels misunderstanding
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is. Dick Cavett
intellectual might persuading
It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one! Edwin Land