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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:4127
AUTHOR:Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
QUOTATION:Great wits jump. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Tristram Shandy (orig. ed.). Vol. iii. Chap. ix.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
WORKS:Laurence Sterne Collection.
 
Note 1.
Great wits jump.—John Byrom: The Nimmers. Buckingham: The Chances, act. iv. sc. 1.

Good wits jump.—Cervantes: Don Quixote, part ii. chap. xxxviii. [back]
 

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