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The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.

Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.189
The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.