"Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation?"
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Quoted in Mary Wollstonecraft, ' (1792), ch. 7
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Vicesimus Knox
(8 December 1752 – 6 September 1821) was an English essayist, headmaster and Anglican priest.
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