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By the laws of rectitude accused Persons, however atrocious their offences, are allowed to make their defence, and by a verdict of a Jury of… — Judith Sargent Murray
Experience had taught me that innocence seldom utters outraged shrikes. Guilt does. Innocence is a mighty shield, and the man or woman covered by it,… — Whittaker Chambers
I read Norman Lock’s The Boy in His Winter with delight and amazement. Styled in the vernacular of a rapidly changing America, it stays true to the… — Unknown Author
A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured. — Joseph Addison
Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true… — Erica Jong
Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men. — Giorgio de Chirico
Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. — Lewis H. Lapham
Is there wisdom in innocence? I think there is, but there is a cult now of drab men and women, for whom the world, and… — Phillip Mann
What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence. — Oscar Wilde
Forgiveness is a selective remembering. It is a conscious choice to focus on someone's innocence instead of his or her mistakes...This serves *you*...Your body was… — Marianne Williamson
It doesn’t make sense, it’s not logical, it’s not a safe profession or a smart profession if you wanna make money or have a living… — Santino Fontana
Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world. — Eartha Kitt
To the extent we are perceiving anyone's guilt -choosing to focus on the errors of their personality rather than the eternal innocence of their spirit… — Marianne Williamson
Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime puts… — Albert Camus
If when you say 'whiskey' you mean the devil's brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster that defiles innocence, dethrones reason... then I am certainly… — Unknown Author
Without innocence, nothing can further, as they say in the I Ching. — Frederick Lenz
He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass. — Horace
Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion. — Oscar Wilde
Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child. — Thomas Traherne
Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends. — Robert South
Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
There is scarcely anything more important in the government of men than the exact - I will ever say pedantic - observance of the regular… — Winston Churchill
The big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent nose, In piteous chase. — William Shakespeare
Imagining in excited reverie That the future years had come, Dancing to a frenzied drum, Out of the murderous innocence of the sea. — William Butler Yeats
What is our innocence, What is our guilt? All are naked, none is safe. — Marianne Moore

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