| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | Joke (See Jesting) |
| | | Jokes are the cayenne of conversation, and the salt of life. Chatfield. | 1 |
| The next best thing to a very good joke is a very bad one. J. C. Hare. | 2 |
| And gentle Dullness ever loves a joke. Pope. | 3 |
| It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding. Sydney Smith. | 4 |
| Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. Junius. | 5 | | |
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