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Jesting is often only indigence of intellect. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Jesting and levity lead a man to lewdness. -- Rabbi Akiva
Jesting and levity accustom a man to lewdness. -- Akiva ben Joseph
Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect. -- Samuel Johnson
Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect. [Fr., La moquerie est souvent une indigence d'esprit.] -- Jean de la Bruyere
Clumsy jesting is no joke. -- Aesop
Long jesting was never good. -- George Herbert
The eye and Religion can beare no jesting. -- George Herbert
Leave jesting whiles it pleaseth, lest it turne to earnest. -- George Herbert
Oh, 'tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the heavy world around. -- A. E. Housman
It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting. -- Elizabeth I
What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. -- Francis Bacon
Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God. -- Ellen G. White
Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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