I am no peer, nor like to be,--but am in middle life, in the mass of citizens; yet I should feel for a son who married a prostituted woman, or a daughter who married a dishonorable and prostituted man, as much as any peer in the realm.
Burke expresses his empathetic stance on the moral implications of marriage choices, regardless of social status.
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