"I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only their own lives."

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It rarely happens otherwise than that a thorough-faced coquette dies in celibacy, as a punishment for her attempts to mislead others, by encouraging looks, words, or actions, given for no other purpose than to draw men on to make overtures that they may be rejected.

— George Washington