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"He struggled to keep his temper. It struck him that both Marta and Chiara took advantage of him by attacking him with their ignorance, or call it innocence. A serious thinking adult had no defence against innocence because he was obliged to respect it, whereas the innocent scarcely knows what respect is, or seriousness either."
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"No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."
— Henry Adams
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