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Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them.
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Pleasantry requiring explanation ceases to be pleasantry; and a commentator on bon mots is seldom capable of conveying them.
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‘Pleasantry, sir!’ exclaimed Pott, with a motion of the hand, indicative of a strong desire to hurl the Britannia metal teapot at the head of the visitor.
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Feeling not unmixed with Pleasantry, achieved and performed by Messrs. Dodson and Fogg
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Feeling not unmixed with Pleasantry, achieved and performed by Messrs. Dodson and Fogg
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Pleasantry, achieved and performed by Messrs. Dodson and Fogg
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The only difficulty, is raising powers suitable to the nature of the service: Fancy is capricious — Wit must not be searched for — and Pleasantry (good-natured slut as she is) will not come in at a call, was an empire to be laid at her feet. —
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The only difficulty, is raising powers suitable to the nature of the service: Fancy is capricious — Wit must not be searched for — and Pleasantry (good-natured slut as she is) will not come in at a call, was an empire to be laid at her feet. —
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Now as the ridiculous lies on the surface, and the majority of men take more pleasure than they ought in Jocularity and Jesting, the Buffoons too get this name of Easy Pleasantry, as if refined and gentlemanlike; but that they differ from these, and considerably too, is plain from what has been said.
Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle
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_Sarcasms_, and of every Kind of _Poignancy_ and _Pleasantry_ of
An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) Corbyn Morris
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