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Best. Subtle. Put-down. Ever.
"'What a woman—oh, what a woman!' cried the King of Bohemia, when we had all three read this epistle. 'Did I not tell you how quick and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?'
'From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a very different level to your Majesty,' said Holmes coldly."
~A Scandal in Bohemia, Arthur Conan Doyle
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