- Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays
Later, my brother-in-law (who's a pastor), torn between amusement and the need to impart a lesson, explained to his skeptical daughter that there are better ways to deal with scoffers while my sister (fourth of nine kids) tittered in the background and quoted Psalm 144:1. My brother-in-law told her she wasn't helping and to move on to the New Testament.