#innocence

Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning. ↗

— A. E. Housman

#american #conceal #cunning #diabolical #every

It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

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I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did. ↗

— Sally Kirkland

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He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music. ↗

— Mark Helprin

#horse #innocence #truth #beauty

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone. ↗

— Mary Astor

#asking questions #gone #innocence #once #questions

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

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Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. ↗

— Bo Bennett

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Ignorance is not innocence but sin. ↗

— Robert Browning

#innocence #sin

An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty. ↗

— DMX

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