If the role of an honest woman were nothing more than perilous, I would admit that it would serve. But it is tiresome; and I have never met a virtuous woman who did not think about deceiving somebody.[Si le métier d’honnête femme n’était que périlleux, passe encore… me disait une vieille dame; mais il ennuie, et je n’ai jamais rencontré de femme vertueuse qui ne pensât jouer en dupe.]
Source:(Dana Estes & Co., ed. 1901), Part I. A General Consideration, Meditation VII. Of the Honeymoon, Page 95
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