'T was the saying of an ancient sage (Gorgias Leontinus, apud Aristotle's 'Rhetoric,' lib. iii. c. 18), that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject which would not bear raillery was suspicious and a jest which would not bear a serious examination was certainly false wit.
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