[E]mbarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever . . .
Source: Miss Marjoribanks in Miss Marjoribanks, ch. 38, Chronicles of Carlingford, bk. 4, 1866.
-- Margaret Oliphant, (Apr 4 1828-1897), Scottish writer; Her books on English society included Salem Chapel, 1876.