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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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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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Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education. – Friedrich Von Schlegel

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

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

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