In order, therefore, to impose a due restraint on the female sex, we must attach a peculiar degree of shame to their infidelity, above what arises merely from its injustice, and must bestow proportionable praises on their chastity.
Empiricism, skepticism
Of Chastity and Modesty, from A Treatise of Human Nature, Book 3, Part 2, Section 12
1740
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