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Matrimony.
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Dignity of manners, too, and proper reſerve are often wanting. The conſtant attendant on too much familiarity is contempt. Women are often before marriage prudiſh, and afterwards they think they may innocently give way to fondneſs, and overwhelm the poor man with it. They think they have a legal right to his affections, and grow remiſs in their endeavours to pleaſe. There are a thouſand nameleſs decencies which good ſenſe gives riſe to, and artleſs proofs of regard which flow from the heart, and will reach it, if it is not depraved. It has ever occurred to me, that is was ſufficient for a woman to receive careſſes,
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