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Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never would."

..The argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he was English.

There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time.