Henry Edward Manning (1808–1892) English Roman Catholic archbishop and cardinal
Source: Towards Evening (1889), p. 34
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Dean Koontz (1945) American author
“To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.”
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The Supplemental Nights (1888), quoted in The Life of Sir Richard Burton, Vol. II (1906), by Thomas Wright, p. 124
Context: The England of our day would fain bring up both sexes and keep all ages in profound ignorance of sexual and intersexual relations; and the consequences of that imbecility are particularly cruel and afflicting. … Shall we ever understand that ignorance is not innocence?
“The truth is, not one of is innocent. We all have sins to confess.”
C.W. Gortner American writer
Source: The Confessions of Catherine de Medici
“I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood.”
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Matthew 27:4 KJV
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“It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.”
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