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Colly   Listen
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Colly  n.  A kind of dog. See Collie.





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"Colly" Quotes from Famous Books



... a suggestion that we may be wrong. Is it possible that the laugh is not the test of the joke? Here is a question over which the philosophers may wrangle. Is there an Absolute in the realm of humor, or must our jokes be judged solely by the pragmatic test? Congreve once told Colly Gibber that there were many witty speeches in one of Colly's plays, and many that looked witty, yet were not really what they seemed at first sight! So a joke is not to be recognized even by its appearance or by the company it keeps. Perhaps there might be established a test of good ...
— Toaster's Handbook - Jokes, Stories, and Quotations • Peggy Edmund & Harold W. Williams, compilers


Words linked to "Colly" :   muddy, modify, pollute, dirty, mud, begrime, foul, change, soil, blemish, slime, spot, clean, muddy up, mire, muck, grime, contaminate


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