“It would ha' been a good deal easier, if ye'd only been a witch.”

— Diana Gabaldon

Variant: Aye, I believe ye, Sassenach. But it would ha’ been a good deal easier if you’d only been a witch.
Source: The Exile: An Outlander Graphic Novel

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