Overture: Prelude http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30630/30630-h/30630-h.htm#Page_20
A Guide to Men (1922)
“For, as blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.”
Thoughts on Various Subjects (1727)
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"The Duchess and the Bugs", 'Lanterns & Lances (1961).
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Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections
“A girl still able to blush is to be trapped in the heart, so as not to make her escape.”
Original: (it) Una ragazza ancora in grado di arrossire è da intrappolare nel cuore, per non farla fuggire.
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