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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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Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

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

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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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These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. – Robert A. Heinlein

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