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"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet." »Saint Augustine
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"Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily." »George Santayana
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"chastity is the greatest form of perversion." »Oscar Wilde
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"chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions." »Aldous Huxley
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"We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition." »Alex Comfort
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"chastity always takes its toll. In some it produces pimples; in others, sex laws." »Karl Kraus
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"For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable." »St. Jerome
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"Reason and Justice tell me that there is more love of man in electricity and steam, than in chastity and refusal to eat meat." »Chekov of Tolstoy
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"Jenny replied to this with a bitterness which might have surprized a judicious person, who had observed the tranquillity with which she bore all the affronts to her chastity; but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise." »Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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"chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery." »Shelley
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"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness." »George Santayana
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"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness." »George Santayana
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