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“I say, Gibson, we're old friends, and you're a fool if you take anything I say as an offence. Madam your wife and I did not hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it was not me.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
― Niels Bohr

“Did I ever say an engagement was an elephant, madam?”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters