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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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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that youve scowled upon. – 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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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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How happy is the blameless vestals lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot. – Alexander Pope

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

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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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The morality of compromise sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men dont compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. – Andrew Carnegie

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