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The hero of Voltaire’s novel so called. All sorts of misfortunes are heaped upon him, and he bears them all with cynical indifference.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.