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“Like many other simple-hearted souls, it was her pet vanity to believe she was endowed with a talent for dark and mysterious diplomacy, and she loved to contemplate her most transparent devices as marvels of low cunning. ” Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
“Flowers are weak creatures. They are naïve. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons .” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“As a general rule, people, even the wicked, are much more naïve and simple-hearted than we suppose. And we ourselves are, too.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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