The truth is never pure and rarely simple.
The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.
Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!
I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.