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"Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends."
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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."

"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."

"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."

"Maybe it's okay to be a kid once in a while."
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"Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature."

"Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal."

"Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise."

"It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done."
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