"if you'd ever had a grown-up daughter you'd……" — W. Somerset Maugham
"if you'd ever had a grown-up daughter you'd know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her - well, it's much better to pretend you're the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for."
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W. Somerset Maugham
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