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The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and ma

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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So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity,
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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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An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity. – Michel de Montaigne

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A womans chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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