By nature women have to perform so many duties proper to them that one cannot separate them enough from everything that could give them other ideas, from everything one treats as amusement and from everything one calls business.
 Montesquieu, The Spirit of Law (1748). copy citation

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Author Montesquieu
Source The Spirit of Law
Topic amusement duty
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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