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Letter "J" » jest
«War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
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War
| Keywords:
assassin, hired, hiring, jest, jesting, lawyer, priest, statesman, The Assassin, The Assassins, The Statesman, trade
«To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief»
«We never know where we go when we are going, We jest and shut the door; Fate - following behind us -bolts it, And we accost no more»
«Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification»
«Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
combat, custom, grammar, jest, Rules of, strict
«The universe does not jest with us, but is in earnest»
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