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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."

"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."

"Innocence is the ability to see things for what they are."

"That Jim Crow there in the window," answered the urchin, holding out a cent, and pointing to the gingerbread figure that had attracted his notice, as he loitered along to school; "the one that has not a broken foot."
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"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."

"The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer."

"Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?"

"The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live."

"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor."
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