Jacques Mallet du Pan (1749 – 10 May 1800), French journalist, of an old Huguenot family, was born near Geneva, the son of a Protestant minister.
Famous quotes containing the words mallet and/or pan:
“But the ball is lost and the mallet slipped long since from the hands
Under the running tap that are not the hands of a child.”
—Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)
“I can’t accept “our nervous age,” since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon or smelt; if a sturgeon makes a stupid mistake, it can only be one: to end up on a hook, and then in a pan in a pastry shell.”
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