“Oons, sir! do you say that I am drunk? I say, sir, that I am as sober as a judge.”
Don Quixote in England (1731), Act III, scene xiv
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Standard reply to people proposing changes in the running of Oxford University; quoted in Colin Gordon, Beyond the Looking Glass (1982), p. 37
“Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.”
June 1784, p. 545
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
“Thank you, sir, but I am perfectly content being the bride of death.”
Source: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
“Sir, I am not in your land, but in my own.”
El Cid's answer to the king when ordered to quit his land; in Chronicle of the Cid, from the Spanish by Robert Southey (1808), Book III, §18, p. 96
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