But I don't wish to force a quarrel upon you on that account.' 'I should be sorry to quarrel with them, because they were kind to me when I was a boy.

They are not very wise.' 'I don't think I ever knew such a houseful of fools.' There was no relationship by blood between the Squire of Folking and the Squire of Babington; but they had married two sisters, and therefore Mrs.
Babington was Aunt Polly to John Caldigate.
'But fools may be very worthy, sir.

I should say that a great many people are fools to you.' 'Not to me especially,' said the squire, almost angrily.
'People who read no books are always fools to those who do read.' 'I deny it.

Our neighbour over the water'-- the middle wash was always called the water at Folking--'never looks at a book, as far as I know, and he is not a fool.

He thoroughly understands his own business But your uncle Babington doesn't know how to manage his own property,--and yet he knows nothing else.