No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man. (Bruce Fairchild Barton)

No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.

Bruce Fairchild Barton

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