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

Other quotes by Graham Greene

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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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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Peace
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Other Quotes from
Age
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My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art Ive been pursuing all my life. – Paul Cezanne

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Age

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. – J. K. Rowling

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Age

An old woman looks in a mirror, recalls a little girl with a rag doll, and wonders what became of the little girl. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Age

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Age

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Publication – is the auction of the Mind of Man. – Emily Dickinson

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Writing

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. – Russell Baker

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Excuses

Many seventh graders I know in Illinois, as well as around the Nation, are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with the quality of education our children are receiving because they had not expected me to ask them about it. – Melissa Bean

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Education

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people. – Lord Byron

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Freedom