Stendhal: Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all. — Stendhal

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

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People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. — Michel de Montaigne
bonus iudex damnat inprobanda, non odit. — Seneca
Fortune is always on the side of the largest battalions. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
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Justice is truth in action. — Benjamin Disraeli
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