“Great wits jump.”

— Laurence Sterne , book The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Book III (1761-1762), Ch. 9. Compare: "Great wits jump", John Byrom, The Nimmers; Earl of Buckingham, The Chances, act. iv, scene 1; "Good wits jump", Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, part II, ch. 38.
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