“If Courtezans and Strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much Rigour as some silly People would have it, what Locks or Bars would be sufficient to preserve the Honour of our Wives and Daughters?”

— Bernard Mandeville, book The Fable of the Bees

Remark H, p. 95
The Fable of the Bees (1714)

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Anglo-Dutch writer and physician 1670–1733

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