Common sense isn't.
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| Quote of the moment |
| They were standing under a tree, each with an arm round the other's neck, and Alice knew which was which in a moment, because one of them had `DUM' embroidered on his collar, and the other `DEE.' |
| ~ Through the Looking-Glass Chapter iv ~ |
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| Forc'd from their homes, a melancholy train, To traverse climes beyond the western main; Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around, And Niagara stuns with thundering sound. |
| ~ Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller. Line 409. ~ |
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| He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing. |
| ~ Benjamin Franklin, Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757. ~ |
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| An evil deed is like milk: it may not turn sour right away. An evil deed smolders like buried coals that will burn you at a later date. |
| ~The Fool ~ |
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| Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost. |
| ~ John Milton, Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 782. ~ |
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| All that is harmony for thee, O Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for thee is too early or too late for me. Everything is fruit to me that thy seasons bring, O Nature. All things come of thee, have their being in thee, and return to thee. |
| ~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations. iv. 23. ~ |
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| The voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve. |
| ~ THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY, speech on parliamentary reform, March 2, 1831.—The Complete Writings of Lord Macaulay, vol. 17, p. 18 (1900). President Franklin D. Roosevelt paraphrased slightly “The words of the great essayist,” not named: “The voice of great events is proclaiming to us. Reform if you would preserve,” in his address at the Democratic state convention, Syracuse, New York, September 29, 1936.—The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936, p. 390 (1938). ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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