Keep calm and carry on. It's what the country expects.

[Or posters. Or history. House really does know a few things about Victorian times from literature and from morbid curiosity with bouts of insomnia. It's more than interesting to hear it first hand, even though it seems skewed. Different universe kind of skewed.]

The only thing worse than neglecting to grasp the basics is believing that you know everything there is to know.

[This may or may not be something of a fault he's admitting of himself.]

I was thinking the same thing.