Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.
'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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