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• People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom…
• There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds…
• Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping…
• We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.
• Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in…
• There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should…
• The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one…
• If Courtezans and Strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much Rigour as some silly People would have it, what Locks or…
• The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascribe that…
• Pride and vanity have built more hospitals than all the virtues together,
• No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our…

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