Jane Austen'ın Northanger Abbey adlı kitabında şu sözleriyle oldukça güzel anlattığı durum:Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well-informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing any thing, should conceal it as well as she can.
