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There are as many kinds of modesty as there are races. To the English woman it is a duty; to the French woman a propriety.

Hippolyte Taine
Race, French Woman, Modesty
Hippolyte Taine (1875). “Notes on Paris”, p.317
There are as many kinds of modesty as there are races. To the English woman it is a duty; to the French woman a propriety.