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Chastity Quote by St. Jerome

“For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.” quote by St. Jerome — Download Open image

“For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.”

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Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.

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It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.

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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

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It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.

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Love clamors far more incessantly and passionately at a closed gate than an open one!

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