
Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Unplaced as yet by chapter
From the third book, "The Book of the Idiot"
The Pillow Book
Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Unplaced as yet by chapter
“Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.”
As quoted in Dictionary of American Maxims (1955) by David George Plotkin
As quoted in Lifetime Speaker's Encyclopedia (1962) edited by Jacob Morton Braude, p. 50.
Variant: Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
“Truly the jaws of irony are agape!”
Source: Rule 34 (2011), Chapter 13, “Kemal: Spamcop” (p. 157)
“The truly enlightened man has no learning, no virtue, no accomplishments, no fame.”
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Essays in Idleness (1967 Columbia University Press, Trns: Donald Keene)
Quoted, The Beautiful and Damned (1922)
“I have no commiseration for princes. My sympathies are reserved for the great mass of mankind ….”
Speech on the Line of the Perdido, Senate (25 December 1810).