Resignation Quote by Bertrand Russell

“The need for prostitution arises from the fact that many men are either unmarried or away from their wives on journeys, that such men are not content to remain continent, and that in a conventionally virtuous community they do not find respectable women.” quote by Bertrand Russell — Download Open image

“The need for prostitution arises from the fact that many men are either unmarried or away from their wives on journeys, that such men are not content to remain continent, and that in a conventionally virtuous community they do not find respectable women.”

Bertrand Russell

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The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.

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