It was the usual sort of academic battle: footnotes at ten paces, bolstered by snide articles in academic journals and lots of sniping about methodology, a thrust and parry of source and countersource. My sources had to be better.
Lauren WilligThe French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French they were forced to say it in their own language.
Lauren WilligIt is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away.
Lauren Willig