To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chican

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery. – Ouida

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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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Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends. – Bishop Robert South

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

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People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster. – James Baldwin

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