Ocupation: Writer
Life: 1780 - 1832
Birthday: 1780
Death: 1832
Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice.
source: Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.309
topic: Ignorance, Vices, Principles, Demeanor, Bashful, Bashfulness