• TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
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    23 hours ago

    Not the origin, but he did further popularize it by using it a bit more literally than anyone before. The first use of it in literature was in Don Quixote.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      21 hours ago

      Too late!

      I’m gonna continue believing that nobody said it until the inventor of bifocal glasses and a kind of stove tried to convince a peer to fuck old women! 😁