14/29 People talk such sentimental rubbish about children. They're a burden, a hindrance, a perpetual source of worry and misery. Most wives are sacrificed to the next generation--an outrageous absurdity. People snivel over the deaths of babies; I see nothing to grieve about. If a child dies, why, the probabilities are it _ought_ to die; if it lives, it lives, and you get survival of the fittest. |