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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 the human race to misery.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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[[w:queen mab (poem)|''queen mab'']] (1813)
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