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Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe

Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

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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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There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet. – Eric Hoffer

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