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More Chastity Quotes

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• Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. — Saint Augustine
• The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and… — Samuel Butler
• Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so… — George Chapman
• Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism. — Anton Chekhov
• Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away. — Erica Jong
• Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity. — Joseph Joubert
• It is Chastity, my brother. She that has that is clad in complete steel. — John Milton
• If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure… — William Shakespeare
• A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts. — Barbara Cartland
• There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet. — Eric Hoffer
• Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste. — John Donne

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