“ a consumptive will voice a misgiving about the state of the healthiest man’s lungs; someone who never washes keeps talking about the baths that others never take; the man who stinks says people stink; the deceived husband sees cuckoldry everywhere; the flighty woman speaks of flighty women; the snob’s talk is of snobs. ”
 Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (1919). copy citation