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Your Quotes for 28 December 2005 - Innocence

When King Herod learned that a new King had been born at Bethlehem, he ordered all the infant males put to death. The Christian church observes today as the Feast of the Holy Innocents in honor of the first Christian martyrs, and today's quotes are on the theme of Innocence.

Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.
     - Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1874 - 1936

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
     - François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld, 1613 - 1680

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.
     - Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844 - 1900

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
     - Ouida (Marie Louise De La Ramée), 1839 - 1908

The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame.
     - Franz Grillparzer, 1791 - 1872

Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.
     - Anne Spencer, 1882 - 1975

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