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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… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
- May [our Declaration of Independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later,… — Thomas Jefferson
- A fierce and monkish art; a castigation of the flesh. You must cut out your imagination and not fly an airplane but… — Wolfgang Langewiesche
- The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close… — Umberto Eco