This joke has been our refuge from one generation to another:
In the life of this joke a thousand years are but as yesterday.
But most of our jokes are of little continuance: though there be some so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their humor then but labor4 and sorrow:
For a joke that is born of a humorist hath but a short time to live and is full of misery6. It cometh up and is cut down like a flower. It fleeth as if it were a shadow and abideth but one edition.
It is sown in quotation7, it is raised in misquotation: We therefore commit this joke to the files of the country newspapers, where it shall circulate forever, world without end.

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n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹 | |
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n.痛苦,苦恼,苦难;悲惨的境遇,贫苦 | |
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n.引文,引语,语录;报价,牌价,行情 | |
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