| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 11429 |
| QUOTATION: | When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Ilka Chase (b. 1905), U.S. author, actor. Quoted in Jilly Cooper and Tom Hartman, Mrs. Crankhurst, Violets and Vinegar (1980). |
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