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is a talent which no man affects to despise but he that is without it.

is a virtue that most effectually promotes the end of good fellowship, which is laughing.

sive Flos Linguarum; The Art of Punning; or

is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which passing in at the ears, and falling upon the diaphragma, excites a titillary motion in those parts, and this being conveyed by the animal spirits into the muscles of the face, raises the cockles of the heart.

is following conversation as a shark follows a ship

The inveterate punster follows conversation as a shark follows a ship

is an act like that of the wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks.

Peo_ple that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks.

is devious --- He that would pun would pick a pocket.

is good natured --- there was never an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.

I never knew an enemy to puns who was not an ill-natured man.

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