“Lord Caversham: No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex.
Lord Goring: Quite so. And we men are so self-sacrificing that we never use it, do we, father?”

—  Oscar Wilde , An Ideal Husband

Act III
An Ideal Husband (1895)

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