It is a rule drawn from nature that the more one decreases the number of marriages that can be made, the more one corrupts those that are made
 Montesquieu, The Spirit of Law (1748). copy citation

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Author Montesquieu
Source The Spirit of Law
Topic marriage rules
Date 1748
Language English
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Note Translated by Anne M. Cohler, Basia Carolyn Miller and Harold Samuel Stone
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