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as quoted in Victorian Women by Erna Olafson Hellerstein, Leslie Parker Hume, and Karen M. Offen (1981)Promenades Dans Londres (1840)

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Prostitution is the most hideous of the afflictions produced by the unequal distribution of the world's goods; this infamy stigmatizes the human species and bears witness against the social organization far more than does crime.

Flora Tristan

Flora Tristan (1803–1844), French author. As quoted in Victorian Women, ch. 90, by Erna Olafson Hellerstein, Leslie Parker Hume, and Karen M. Offen (1981).

From an 1840 book first published in French under the title, Promenades dans Londres.

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