The stage censorship in this age is a deliberate and wanton insult to the British public, and one which, if they had the slightest spirit in them and were not—as far as the majority of the theatrical public goes—a body of court-ridden snobs, they would sweep away in a moment. Her Majesty may be the most excellent lady in the land, but I have as much objection to her dictating to me what plays I shall listen to and what plays I am not to hear as I have to our prudes regulating my literature.

Men are such clots, dates don't mean much to them, and if he does start counting, you can always bribe the doctor to tell him it's a prem.

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Republics have been accused of being ungrateful. Aristides was ostracised for being called the Just, and Themistocles banished, after saving his country from desolation.