“ Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity. I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumbnail. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I'm certainly not denying that I'm young, but I'm not fluff. ”
- Jessica Simpson- Copy
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“ What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children? ”
- Nikita Khrushchev- Copy
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“ The silence often of pure innocence Persuades when speaking fails. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. ”
- Walt Whitman- Copy
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“ Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ Order and simplification are the first steps towards the mastery of a subject. ”
- Thomas Mann- Copy
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“ Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. ”
- Graham Greene- Copy
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“ People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster. ”
- James Baldwin- Copy
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“ In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning. ”
- A. E. Housman- Copy
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“ Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness. ”
- William C. Bryant- Copy
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“ The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever. ”
- John Updike- Copy
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“ Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. ”
- Lyman Abbott- Copy
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“ That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end. ”
- Lise Hand- Copy
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“ Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence. ”
- Adam Smith- Copy
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“ Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing. ”
- John Donne- Copy
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“ Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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