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Alain-Rene Lesage

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It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.
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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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