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“The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.... He was fixed in the house of lords, that hospital of incurables, and his retreat to popularity was cut off; for the confidence of the public, when once great and once lost, is never to be regained.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)
“Andrews: You married him only because I told you not to.
Ellie: Youve been telling me what not to do ever since I can remember.
Andrews: Thats because youve always been a stubborn idiot.
Ellie: I come from a long line of stubborn idiots.”
—Robert Riskin (18971955)