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Life of Johnson. I-JIGII PEOPLE. Sir, (said he.) are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you’ll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own pleasure to their children than a hundred other women. Tradeswomen (I mean ths wives of tradesmen) in the city, who are worth from ten to fifteen thousand pounds, are the w’orst creatures upon the earth, grossly ignorant, and thinking viciousness fashionable. Farmers, I think, are often worthless fellows. Few lords will cheat; and, if they do, they’ll be ashamed of it: farmers cheat and are not ashamed of it: they have all the sensual vices too of the nobility, with cheating into the bargain.” Boswell. “ The notion of the world. Sir, however is, that the morals of women of quality are worse than . those in lower stations.” Johnson. “ Yes, Sir, the licentiousness of one woman of quality makes more noise than that of a number of women in lower stations; then. Sir. you are to consider the malignity of women in the city against women of quality, which will make them believe any thing of them. . . .No, Sir, so far as I have observed, the higher in rank, the richer ladies are. they are the better instructed and the more virtuous.”