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Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Walden (1854), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 2, pp. 346-347, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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The innocence of those who grind the faces of the poor, but refrain from pinching the bottoms of their neighbour's wives! The innocence of Ford, the innocence of Rockefeller! The nineteenth century was the Age of Innocence—that sort of innocence. With the result that we're now almost ready to say that a man is seldom more innocently employed than when making love.
(Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), British novelist. Anthony Beavis, in Eyeless in Gaza, ch. 20 (1936).
With this witticism Anthony Beavis turns Samuel Johnson's aphorism on its head: "There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.")
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The innocence of those who grind the faces of the poor, but refrain from pinching the bottoms of their neighbour's wives! The innocence of Ford, the innocence of Rockefeller! The nineteenth century was the Age of Innocence—that sort of innocence. With the result that we're now almost ready to say that a man is seldom more innocently employed than when making love.
(Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), British novelist. Anthony Beavis, in Eyeless in Gaza, ch. 20 (1936).
With this witticism Anthony Beavis turns Samuel Johnson's aphorism on its head: "There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.")
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Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
(Robert Browning (1812-1889), British poet. The Inn Album, cto. 5 (1875).)
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
(Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929), French semiologist. Cool Memories, ch. 5 (1987, trans. 1990).)
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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 them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.
(Friedrich Von Schlegel (1772-1829), German philosopher. Aphorism 31 in Selected Aphorisms from the Athenaeum (1798), translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Pennsylvania University Press (1968).)
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No sense in no sense innocence of what of not and what of delight. In no sense innocence in no sense and what in delight and not, in no sense innocence in no sense no sense what, in no sense and delight, and in no sense and delight and not in no sense and delight and not, no sense in no sense innocence and delight.
(Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), U.S. author. (Written 1923), originally published in Oxford 1927 ( May 28, 1927). "Are There Arithmetics," Reflections on the Atomic Bomb, Black Sparrow Press (1973).)
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Even innocence itself has many a wile,
And will not dare to trust itself with truth,
And love is taught hypocrisy from youth.
(George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824), British poet. Don Juan (First Canto LXXII, l. 574-576).
OAEL-2. The Poems of Byron. Paul E. More, ed. (1933) Houghton Mifflin.)
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I count religion but a childish toy,
And hold there is no sin but innocence.
(Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), British dramatist, poet. Machiavel, in "Prologue," The Jew of Malta.
The lines are often modernized: I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance.)
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
(François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), French writer, moralist. repr. F.A. Stokes Co., New York (c. 1930). Moral Maxims and Reflections, no. 467 (1665-1678), trans. London (1706).)
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