Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Letter to Sir Horace Mann, 1774.

The whole [Scotch] nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it.[389:3]

Letter to Sir Horace Mann, 1778.

Footnotes

[389:2]

A little nonsense now and then

Is relished by the wisest men.

Anonymous.

[389:3] It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.—Sydney Smith: Lady Holland's Memoir, vol i. p. 15.

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