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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People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another persons habitual misery. – Graham Greene

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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock! – Graham Greene

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It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be. – Anatole France

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

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He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass. – Horace

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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence. – Jean Baudrillard

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