Thus It Is, 1989, p. 6
As of a Trumpet, On Eagle's Wings, Thus It Is
“Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. Mothers are different. Mothers are darlings.”
Lord Goring, Act IV
An Ideal Husband (1895)
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