“What silly people wits are!”
Que les gens d'esprit sont bêtes.
Act I, scene i. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 883-86.
Le Barbier de Séville (1773)
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Que les gens d'esprit sont bêtes.
Le Barbier de Séville (1773)
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And what's wrong with that?
I'd like to know
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