“No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.”
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Context: A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next to escape the censures of the world: if the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public: a man is more sure of his conduct, when the verdict which he passes upon his own behaviour is thus warranted and confirmed by the opinion of all that know him.
On "Sir Roger", in The Spectator No. 122 (20 July 1711).
Book I, Ch. 1.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)
Good Hearted Woman, title track from Good Hearted Woman, written with Willie Nelson (1972).
Song lyrics
“I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.”
Source: Selected Letters
