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I am persuaded that if God had not ordained marriage, but had left men to associate with the first women they met, they themselves would very speedily have become tired of this disorderly course, and have prayed for marriage, since ’tis the very prohibition to do wrong which most excites to wrong. The ancients said: Nitimur in vetitum, semper cupirnusque negata. Quod licet ingraturn est, quod non licet acrius urit.