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and yet a child’s utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes. - Herman Melville
" "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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About Herman Melville
Herman Melville (1 August 1819 – 28 September 1891) was an American novelist, essayist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period.
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