“I wish you all sorts of prosperity with a little more taste.”
Book VII, ch. 4.
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Gil Blas
Alain-René Lesage
Original title
Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane
(French, 1715)
Gil Blas is a picaresque novel by Alain-René Lesage published between 1715 and 1735.
Book X, ch. 1. Earlier written by Elliot, Essay on Field Husbandry, p. 35 (1747). Translated by Tobias George Smollett, Translation of Gil Blas, Book x, Chapter 1.
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Book VII, ch. 7.
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“It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.”
Book III, ch. 11. Compare: "The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts", Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Speech in Reply to Mr. Dundas, in Sheridaniana.
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Book VIII, ch. 9. Compare: "What is got over the Devil's back is spent under the belly", François Rabelais, Works, Book V, ch. 11.
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Book XII, ch. 7. Compare: "A flat case as plain as a pack-staff", Thomas Middleton, The Family of Love (1602-07), Act v, Scene 3.
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