MDMD2: The Learned English Dog

[Dave Monroe]

On 4/12/08, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> "All at once, out of the Murk, a dozen mirror'd Lanthorns have leapt
> alight together, as into their Glare now strolls a somewhat dishevel'd
> Norfolk Terrier, with a raffish Gleam in its eye,--" (M&D, Ch. 3, p. 18)
>
> http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0109&msg=60179

... meanwhile, I saw something recently attributing that "Every dog
must have its day" (trans. as provided, cf. Vineland) or somesuch to
Voltaire, but without a specific text cited.  I can neither confirm
nor deny, at least not via Google.  Help!