A true gentleman will never confine his attentions exclusively to one lady unless he has the intention of marriage.
Tag: Marriage
Privilege of Marriage
Rules from Thomas Paine’s Utopia – I don’t think anyone would be eligible for marriage 
today:
“Their women are not married before eighteen nor their men before two-and-
twenty, and if any of them run into forbidden embraces before marriage
they are severely punished, and the privilege of marriage is denied them
unless they can obtain a special warrant from the Prince. Such disorders cast a great reproach upon the master and mistress of the family in which they happen, for it is supposed that they have failed in their duty.