"It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port."

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"It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port."

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"Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings."

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