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"Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer."

"If I ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking."

"And if not for the caterpillars and butterflies, who will I talk to? You'll be far away. And as for larger creatures, I'm not afraid. I have my thorns...to protect me."

"Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone."

"This woman might have a daughter, but she was as innocent and pure as newly fallen snow."

"Babies are the buds of imagination that are ready to bloom with lights of love and affection."

"The baby's beauty lies on its' pure-hearted."
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"The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else."

"Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up."

"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope."

"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."

"Terms like that, "Humane Society," are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent."

"Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain."
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