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C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Jeering

Abstain from dissolute laughter, uncomely jests, loud talking, and jeering.

Jeremy Taylor.

Scoff not at the natural defects of any which are not in their power to amend. Oh, it is cruel to beat a cripple with his own crutches.

Fuller.

Jeer not others upon any occasion. If they be foolish, God hath denied them understanding; if they be vicious, you ought to pity, not revile them; if deformed, God framed their bodies, and will you scorn His workmanship? Are you wiser than your Creator? If poor, poverty was designed for a motive to charity, not to contempt; you cannot see what riches they have within.

South.