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"Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease."

Robert Cecil, British Public Servant

Virtue, Disease, Scandal

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"Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease."

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"Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are."

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"Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease."

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