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Quote by Graham Greene
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so m

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. – Graham Greene

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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. – Graham Greene

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Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast. – Graham Greene

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The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life. – G. K. Chesterton

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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 dont know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we dont care that we dont. – Dylan Thomas

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If you would live innocently, seek solitude. – Publilius Syrus

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Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly. – Malcolm Bradbury

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