“Tell me to whom you are addressing yourself when you say that.
I am addressing myself—I am addressing myself to my cap.”

—  Molière, book The Miser

[J]e veux que tu me dises à qui lu parles quand lu dis cela.
Je parle... je parle à mon bonnet.
Act I, scene iii
L'Avare (1668)

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