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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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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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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Now my innocence begins to weigh me down. – Jean Racine

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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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All things truly wicked start from an innocence. – Ernest Hemingway

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

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