"How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards."
John Gay

January 1, 1970

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Mrs. Peachum, Act I, sc. viii

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