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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.


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SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
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AMBROSE BIERCE He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.
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OSCAR WILDE Virginity can be lost by a thought.
ST. JEROME It is logical to say that ignorance seems to be the root cause of all human suffering.
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