“Who Weapons put into a Mad-Man's Hands,
May be the first the Error understands.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
Fab. XXXVI: Of the Husband-man and the Wood
The Fables of Aesop (2nd ed. 1668)
“It is not the hand but the understanding of a man that may be said to write.”
Book III, Author's Preface
Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III
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