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Irony is the soul of wit. "My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothin
by pigbucket 16y ago
Irony is the soul of wit.
"My liege, and madam, to expostulate
What majesty should be, what duty is,
Why day is day, night night, and time is time,
Were nothing but to waste night, day and time.
Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief: your noble son is mad:
Mad call I it; for, to define true madness,
What is't but to be nothing else but mad?
But let that go."
- petercooper 16y agoAh, but it is a proverb in its less nuanced sense all the same.