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A jest's prosperity lies in the ear
Of him that hears it, never in the tongue
Of him that makes it.
— Love's Labour's Lost, Act V Scene 2
KEYWORD: favour
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My dread lord,
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For Hamlet, and the trifling of his favour,
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Thought and affliction, passion, hell itself,
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Let me see. [Takes the skull.] Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him,
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