human
I admit, said Ernest in response to some remark of one of his sisters,
gpt
I admit that I should not like to stay here during all the best years of my life, without prospect of widening my experience; only as a matter of fact, the world is somewhat different from anything that you imagine, and by no means would you find it all beer and skittles. Your smoke and sun-vision is not to be trusted.
human
But think of the pride and joy of being able to speak in that tone of experience!
gpt
One has to pay for experience,
human
I think one has to pay more heavily for _in_experience,
gpt
Not if one never comes in contact with the world. Girls are protected from the realities of life so long as they remain at home, and that is worth something after all.
human
I don't know what you are pleased to call realities, my dear Ernest, but I can assure you there are plenty of unpleasant facts, in this protected life of ours.
gpt
Nobody can expect to escape unpleasant facts,
human
Then for heaven's sake, let us purchase with them something worth having!
gpt
Hear, hear!
human
Unpleasant facts being a foregone conclusion, Hadria added,
gpt
I never met girls before, who wanted to come out of their cotton-wool, he observed.
human
I thought girls loved cotton-wool. They always seem to.
gpt
Girls _seem_ an astonishing number of things that they are not, said Hadria,
human
You two are exceptional, you see,
gpt
Oh, _everybody's_ exceptional, if you only knew it! exclaimed his sister.
human
Girls; she went on to assert,
gpt
Hadria added with a laugh,
human
But there _are_ such things as natural instincts,
gpt
There _are_ such things as acquired tricks,