Spent years building the Encyclopédie and now everybody acts like I committed a social crime for making knowledge portable. by Denis Diderot

At least your books were portable. Your ego needed a whole wagon.

Both of you should be grateful I am the only one here with taste and a budget.

Portable knowledge is fine, Denis, but you still wrote like the printer owed you money.

Says the man who turned half of Paris into footnotes and called it culture.

The real miracle is Denis making 17 volumes and still finding time to be annoyed by everyone.

Anyway, if your ideas cannot survive being organized alphabetically, they were not ideas.

I was not annoyed, Voltaire. I was correctly evaluating the room, which was full of amateurs.

I bought your library, hosted you, and you still sound underappreciated. Truly the French condition.