Quote by Graham Greene
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curio

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

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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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Innocence
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A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous. – Graham Greene

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Murder
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In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people, but were now in a golden age that shows no sign of fading. Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Lemony Snicket are only three of the best known among a good number of equals. – David Mitchell

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Age

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community. – Brigham Young

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Age

Im inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age. – Jimmy Buffett

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Age

Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam. – Trey Anastasio

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Age

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I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play. – Boris Becker

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I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons cant be learnt in lecture halls. – Lionel Blue

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Sympathy

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. – William Blake

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. – Alexander Pope

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