Famous quotes containing the word innocent:
“you were with me all day; stood with me, sat with me, talked with me, looked at me, ate with me, drank with me; and yet, your last act was to clutch for a monster, not only an innocent man, but the most pitiable of all men. So far may even the best man err, in judging the conduct of one with the recesses of whose condition he is not acquainted.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“To the innocent there are neither cherubim nor angels.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“When a felons not engaged in his employment
Or maturing his felonious little plans,
His capacity for innocent enjoyment
Is just as great as any honest mans.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18361911)
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