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Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from mens belief t

Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from mens belief that they own their bodies — those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another! – C.S. Lewis

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An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity. – Michel de Montaigne

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

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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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