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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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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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The truth has never been of any real value to any human being – it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths. – Graham Greene

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She looked as though butter wouldnt melt in her mouth –or anywhere else. – Else Lanchester

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The innocent is the person who explains nothing. – Albert Camus

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

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