" A Yorkshireman once said to me, ‘My county folk are all alike. Their first thought is how to resist. Why! I myself, if I hear a man say it is a fine day, catch myself trying to find out that it is no such thing. It is so in thought; it is so in word; it is so in deed. "

― Elizabeth Gaskell , The Elizabeth Gaskell Collection: 60 Classic Works