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Oliver Wendell Holmes

"I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them."

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"I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them."

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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."

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

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"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."

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

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

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

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"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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