Quote by C.S. Lewis
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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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. – C.S. Lewis

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

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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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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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