No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man. (Bernard Barton)

No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man.

Bernard Barton

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