An honest woman ought to be in a financial condition such as forbids her lover to think she will ever cost him anything.[Une femme honnête doit avoir une existence pécuniaire qui permette à son amant de penser qu’elle ne lui sera jamais à charge d’aucune manière.]

Source:(Dana Estes & Co., ed. 1901), Part I. A General Consideration, Meditation III. Of the Honest Woman, Aphorism VIII, Page 34
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