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tho' it is possible a man may love & Esteem the Woman who has Expiated the Errors of her Youth--still he cannot Efface them from his memory & no man of acute sensibility perhaps--can be happy with the Wife whose recollections are not pure, --& if he is afraid of speaking of Vice before her she is undone; XX must be more desirous of marrying a Woman whom he admired, than one whom he forgave.-- ....'tis the cursed insolence of wealth That makes the poor man poor....