"I Can Do Anything You Can Do Better"
Submitted by Aaron Barlow on August 31, 2011 - 21:02In George Eliot's Victorian novel Middlemarch, set around 1830, just prior to the queen's ascension to the throne, one of the main characters, Dr. Lydgate, comments:
In this stupid world most people never consider that a thing is good to be done unless it is done by their own set.
180 years later, and things haven't changed a bit.