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Updated: May 4, 2025

Now, why can't you do something like Bootles's Baby?" Fathers never take any interest in the business at all: they do not count. The sympathy of a mother may be reckoned on, but not her judgement, for she is either wildly favourable, or, mistrusting her own tendencies, is more diffident than need be.

Andrew Lang - How to Fail in Literature; a lecture