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Tag Name "Pleasantry" (6)

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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.
Voltaire
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All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you.
Judith Crist
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
Tacitus
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All pleasantry should be short and it might even be as well were the serious short also.
Voltaire
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For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
James Boswell
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The fairest blossoms of pleasantry thrive best where the sun is not strong enough to scorch, nor the soil rank enough to corrupt.
Roger L'Estrange