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It's innocence
when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
-- Mignon Mclaughlin
1915?-, American Author,
Editor
To vice,
innocence must always seem only a superior kind of
chicanery.
-- Ouida
1838-1908, British Writer
Now my
innocence begins to weigh me down.
-- Jean Racine
1639-1699, French Dramatist
Prudishness is
pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to
remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and
evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of
education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble
lack of education.
-- Friedrich Schlegel
1772-1829, German
Philosopher, Critic, Writer
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Innocence is
like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
-- Bishop Robert South
1634-1716, British Clergyman
If you would
live innocently, seek solitude.
-- Publilius Syrus
1st Century BC, Roman Writer
I know we're
not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and
lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch
buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real
sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our
discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all,
and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we
don't.
-- Dylan Thomas
1914-1953, Welsh Poet
Certainly Adam
in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of
the world, than I when I was a child.
-- Thomas Traherne
1636-1674, British Clergyman,
Poet, Mystic
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