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"To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief."
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"I'm from New York, I make kind of somewhat maybe lewd, at times - maybe some would say dirty - jokes. But in jest."

"To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief."
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"For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!"

"My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!"

"I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere."
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