And we men are so self-sacrificing that we never use it [common sense], do we, father?

No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. Mothers are different. Mothers are darlings.

Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

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