From the moment that any man tells me that he cannot understand the humour of Rabelais, I never care to speak to him, or to hear him speak to me, on literary topics.
1 June 2015
The Humour of Rabelais
James Mangan (1803-1849), "A Sixty-Drop Dose of Laudanum," The Prose Writings of James Clarence Mangan, ed. D. J. O'Donoghue (Dublin: O'Donoghue & Co., 1904), p. 208:
