Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I am usually a fun-loving person, and I say most of the things in a jest. Sometimes I get in trouble, but over a period of time, I think people now realise that most of the things I say are in jest.
Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.
Private emails between friends and colleagues written in haste and without much thought or sensitivity, even when the content of them is meant to be in jest, can result in offense where none was intended.
If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
A lot of truth is said in jest.
Jests that give pains are no jests.
Never injure a friend, even in jest.
Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear.
Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest.
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
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