"I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy."

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when anybody talks to me as if I hadn't good sense, I'm immediately tempted to act as if I hadn't. Like sticking beans up your nose. ... you know the story about the mother who said to her children the last thing before she went out, Now be sure not to stick beans up your nose? Naturally, they would never have thought of it if she hadn't put the idea into their heads.

— Helen Eustis