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The greatest regard which can be acquired by that sex [women] is derived from their fidelity; and a woman becomes cheap and vulgar, loses her rank, and is exposed to every insult, who is deficient in this particular.

The smallest failure is here sufficient to blast her character.

A female has so many opportunities of secretly indulging these appetites that nothing can give us security but absolute modesty/reserve.

Common sense may inform us that, however specious these ideas of perfect equality may seem, they are really, at bottom, impracticable; and were they not so, would be extremely pernicious to human society.

Render possessions ever so equal, men's different degrees of art, care, and industry will immediately break that equality.