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• If Courtezans and Strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much Rigour as some silly People would have it, what Locks or Bars would be sufficient to preserve the Honour of our Wives and Daughters?

  The Fable of the Bees Remark H, p. 95

  Bernard Mandeville
  British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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• Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men.

  Andre Weil
  French mathematician
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Subjects in these quotes:

• mathematician
• prosecuted
• sufficient
• daughters
• morality
• locks

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