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"When we see an innocent child, this is an ordinary thing; but when we see an innocent adult, this is an extraordinary thing!"
"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."
"In the true man there is a child concealed - who wants to play."
"Innocence still lives within our hearts and the child within each of us knows right from wrong."
"You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility."
"Despite its dark veins, the transparency of dragonfly's wings assures me of a pure, innocent world."
"The happiest adults are those who never buried old toys or abandoned imaginary friends."
"If I ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking."
"Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all, a way of being alone, whereas defensiveness and scorn are a participation in precisely what, by these means, you want to separate yourself from."
Explore more quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The man who thinks his wife his baby his house his horse his dog and himself severely unequalled is almost sure to be a good-humored person."
"The longing for certainty ... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion."
"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?"
"Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel."
"The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn."
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