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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means some

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc. – G. K. Chesterton

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Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly. – William Shakespeare

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These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it. – Henry David Thoreau

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How happy is the blameless vestals lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot. – Alexander Pope

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