My mouth washed / Pan sur le bec

[fare]

Ulrich Hobelmann remarks that in my article Public Goods Fallacies (and hence the essay Government is the Rule of Black Magic from which it is excerpted), I had misattributed to Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary the following quip:

Majority, n.: That quality that distinguishes a crime from a law.

Well, I had wrongly

Comments

[anonymous]

Quoiqu'il en soit, ça fait parler de Bierce, ignoré ici-bas, ç'toujours ça de gagner.

g.

[anonymous]

euh, "de gagné" !

Au fait, génial, ce lien sur le "Dictionnaire"; j'avoue crever de rire aux rubriques "maiden" et "woman" ("An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication..."), que je lis pour la 1° fois en anglais; et pourtant je ne suis pas misogyne (la preuve que si, va-t-on dire)...

Ciao.

[ancapi]

Not only pleasant pro-liberty reading, but also language practice (I've started to do French)!
Thanks!

[averros]

No matter who said it first, the quip is great :)