“Ignorance is not innocence but sin.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
“No ignorance of truth is a personal sin before God, except that ignorance which springs from personal sin.”
Source: Towards Evening (1889), p. 34
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