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{{quote| '''Elizabeth''': For what becomes of the moral if our comfort springs from a breach of promise? ...<br />

'''Darcy''': You need not distress yourself. The moral will be perfectly fair. Lady Catherine's unjustifiable endeavours to separate us were the means of removing all my doubts. }}

* Hilaire Belloc's book of poems ''Cautionary Tales'', written in 1907, parodies the little stories with morals that the Victorians loved to tell their children, in which dire consequences would befall any child who broke the slightest rule. The poems include ''Matilda, Who Told Lies, And Was Burned To Death'' (a retelling of The Boy Who Cried Wolf), and ''Jim, Who Ran Away From His Nurse, And Was Eaten By A Lion''.

** And, of course, Algernon who played with a Loaded Gun and upon missing his Sister was Reprimanded by his Father.

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