A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency.[translation by John Willis Clark]Freedom do much more damage to a woman’s honour than secret depravity.[translation by John Ormsby][Que mucho más dañan a las honras de las mujeres las desenvolturas y libertades públicas que las maldades secretas.]

Source:(ed. 1871), Part II, Chapter XXII, Page 440; (ed. 1885), Part II, Chapter XXII, Volume III, Page 238
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