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Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A womans chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. -

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

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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

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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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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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