PRUDERY

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1. Perfect Love casts out Prudery together with Fear.—RICHARD GARNETT, De Flagello Myrteo
   

2. Disdainful prudes, who ceaseless ply
   The superb muscle of the eye.—MATTHEW GREEN, The Spleen
   

3. The peculiarity of prudery is to multiply sentinels, in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.—VICTOR HUGO, Les Miserables
   

4. Hence, far hence, ye prudes!—OVID, Art of Love
   

5. Will Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously
   virtuous.—SIR RICHARD STEELE, The Spectator
   

6. Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.—STENDHAL