<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342159" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To a Certain Gentleman</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(' Women are often tempters to sexual sin and delight in it. . . A recent report of a female probation officer relates that some of the girls who, as we may say euphemistically' had gone astray,' owned to her that they enjoyed the life of the evil house.'<br>- The Case Against Woman Suffrage, published by the Man-Suffrage Association Opposed to Political Suffrage for Women.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">IT may be so, good sir, it may be so,<br>Not all who sin are tempted - that we know: <br>It may be darker things than this are true, <br>And yet, upon my soul, if I were you ­<br>A man, no longer young, at peace, secured <br>From all that tempting women have endured <br>Of poverty and ignorance and fear<br>And joy that make youth terrible and dear, <br>If I were you, before I took my pen<br>And wrote those words to hearten other men, <br>And give them greater sense of moral ease <br>In the long score of common sins like these, <br>If I were you, I would have held my hand<br>In fire.<br>- Ah, well; you would not understand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alice+Duer+Miller">Alice Duer Miller</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342159" data-title="To a Certain Gentleman de Alice Duer Miller" data-description="(' Women are often tempters to sexual sin and delight in it. . . A recent report of a female probation officer relates that some of the girls who, as we may say euphemistically' had gone astray,' owned to her that they enjoyed the life of the evil..."></div> </div> </div>

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