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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When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it. – 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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An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity. – Michel de Montaigne

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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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How happy is the blameless vestals lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot. – Alexander Pope

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So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity,
That, when a soul is found sincerely so,
A thousand liveried angels lacky her,
Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt. – John Milton

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