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Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor Quotes: and yet a child’s utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes.
         

and yet a child’s utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes.


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