“People of Substance may Sin without being expos'd for their stolen Pleasure; but Servants and the Poorer sort of Women have seldom an Opportunity of concealing a Big Belly, or at least the Consequences of it.”

— Bernard Mandeville , book The Fable of the Bees

Remark C, p. 66
The Fable of the Bees (1714)

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Anglo-Dutch writer and physician 1670–1733

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“People of Substance may Sin without being expos'd for their stolen Pleasure; but Servants and the Poorer sort of Women have seldom an Opportunity of concealing a Big Belly, or at least the Consequences of it.”

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