The Jest Book: The Choicest Anecdotes and SayingsLemon, Mark
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The Jest Book: The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings
Lemon, Mark
Anecdotes -- Great Britain; English wit and humor
True to the Letter, 287
True Wit, 123
Trump Card, A, 13
Truth and Fiction, 240
Truth and Rhyme, 137
Truth at Last, 133
Truth by Accident, The, 216
Truth for the Ladies, A, 100
Truth not Always to be Spoken, 88
Truth not to be Spoken at All Times, 78
Truth _v._ Politeness, 255
Trying to the Temper, 258
Twice Ruined, 79
Two Carriages, 275
Two Cures for Ague, 353
Two Make a Pair, 159
Two of a Trade, 77
Two Sides to a Speech, 90
Two Smiths, The, 28
Twofold Illustration, 42
Typographical Transfer, A, 332
Typographical Wit, 260
UGLY DOG, AN, 48
Ugly Trades, 304
Unanswerable Argument, An, 299
Uncivil Warning, 351
Unconscious Insult, An, 317
Unconscious Postscript, An, 206
Unequal Arrangement, An, 355
Unexpected Cannonade, An, 340
Unfortunate Lover, An, 181
Union is Strength, 51
Union of Opposites, 319
Unkind, 117
Unknown Tongue, 38
Unlikely Result, An, 348
Unpoetical Reply, 120
Unreasonable, 94
Unre-hearsed Effect, An, 65
Unremitting Kindness, 100
Untaxed Luxury, An, 319
Unwelcome Agreement, 158
Up and Down, 301
Up in the World, 9
Upright Man, An, 87
Use is Second Nature, 196
Useful Ally, A, 90
Utilitarian Inquiry, A, 328
VAILS TO SERVANTS, 85
Vain Search, A, 96
Vain Threat, A, 343
Valuable Beaver, A, 301
Valuable Discovery, 90
Value of Applause, 171
Value of Nothing, 241
Vast Domain, 21
Vera Cannie, 243
Verse and Worse, 118
Verses Written on a Window in the Highlands of Scotland, 15
Very Appropriate, 287
Very Clear, 46
Very Easy, 303
Very Evident, 213
Very Like Each Other, 270
Very Likely, 249, 312
Very Pointed, 22
Very Pretty, 102
Very Serious, 130
Very Shocking, if True, 254
Very True, 173, 286
Vice Versa, 190
Visible Darkness, 10
Visible Proof, 82
Visibly Losing, 293
Voluminous Speaker, A, 148
Vox et Praeterea Nihil, 147
Vulgar Arguments, 122
Vulgarity, 362
WALKING STICK, A, 326
Walpoliana, 107, 111, 119
Warm Friendships, 98
Warm Man, A, 348
Warning to Ladies, 54
Waste of Time, 42
Waste Powder, 18
Way of the World, 75
Way of Using Books, 175
Weak Woman, A, 11
Wearing Away, 347
Well-bred Horse, 9
Well Matched, 6
Well Said, 268
Well Turned, 346
Wellington, Duke of, and the Aurist, 87
Wellington Surprised, 250
Welsh Wig-ging, A, 26
Wet and Dry, 141
What Everybody Does, 294
What is an Archdeacon?, 295
What's a Hat without a Head?, 285
What's Going On?, 159
What's in a Name?, 279
What's in a Syllable?, 151
What's my Thought Like?, 305
Wheel of Fortune, The, 195
Where it came from, 316
Where is the Audience?, 183
Whig and Tory, 67
Whist, 244
Whist-Playing, 229
Whitbread's Entire, 359
White Hands, 287
White Teeth, 275
Who's the Fool?, 132
Who's to Blame?, 136
Whose?, 192
Why are Women Beardless?, 208
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