Question
Supposedly, anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. For 10 points each:
[10e] That quote is often misattributed to this satirist, whose Philosophical Dictionary contains the quips “Common sense is not so common” and “The best is the enemy of the good.” He also wrote Candide.
ANSWER: Voltaire [or François-Marie Arouet]
[10h] The line is actually from a comedy by this French polymath, who is himself credited with preserving Voltaire’s complete works after they were banned. It is spoken by his best-known character, a scheming barber turned valet.
ANSWER: Pierre Beaumarchais (“bo-mar-SHAY”) [or Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais] (The character is Figaro, and the line is from The Barber of Seville.)
[10m] In this other play, the Cockney chauffeur Henry Straker, who resembles Leporello, corrects the anarchist Jack Tanner, a supposed ancestor of Don Juan, stating “It wasn’t Voltaire: it was Bow Mar Shay” who said the line.
ANSWER: Man and Superman (by George Bernard Shaw)
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