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"Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends."
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"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."
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"The blessedness of being little!!!"
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"There's a bit of kitten in all of us."
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"Sometimes, as a great treat, I was allowed to remove Nursie's snowy ruffled cap. Without it, she somehow retreated into private life and lost her official status. Then, with elaborate care, I would tie a large blue satin ribbon round her head - with enormous difficulty and holding my breath, because tying a bow is no easy matter for a four-year-old. After which I would step back and exclaim in ecstasy: "Oh Nursie, you ARE beautiful!" At which she would smile and say in her gentle voice: "Am I, love?"
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"Who shows a child, just as they are? Who sets itin its constellation, and gives the measureof distance into its hand? Who makes a child's deathout of grey bread, that hardens, - or leaves itinside its round mouth like the coreof a shining apple? Killers areeasy to grasp. But this: death,the whole of death, before life,to hold it so softly, and not live in anger,cannot be expressed."
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"...he looked as if nothing hard in the world had touched him..."
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"The baby's beauty lies on its' pure-hearted."
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"There is no aphrodisiac like innocence."
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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!"
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"We all know the true nature of the human soul, because we have all looked into the eyes of children, and saw ourselves looking back."
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"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."
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"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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"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus."
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"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."
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"Passion is the drunkenness of the mind."
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"If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives."
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"Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature."
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"Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none."
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"Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience."
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"Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends."
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