Common sense isn't.
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| Quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests. |
| ~ Sir Thomas Browne, Dedication to Urn-Burial. Chap. v. ~ |
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| To study the stars upon the wide, boundless sea, is divine as it was to the Chaldean Magi, who observed their revolutions from the plains. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. White-Jacket (1850), ch. 19, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 5, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1969). ~ |
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| Judgment: One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to be supplied is light, not heat. |
| ~ Woodrow Wilson ---Address on preparedness, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, January 29, 1916. ~ |
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| On Child-rearing: Nothing appeals to children more than justice, and they should be taught in the nursery to "play fair" in games, to respect each other's property and rights, to give credit to others, and not to take too much credit to themselves. |
| ~ Emily Post, Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home, Chap. XXXV¶29, 1922 ~ |
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| Of what I call God, And fools call Nature. |
| ~ Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book. The Pope. Line 1073. ~ |
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| All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event—in the living act, the undoubted deed—there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask! |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Moby-Dick (1851), ch. 36, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 6, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1988). Spoken by Captain Ahab about Moby-Dick. ~ |
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| "No, not really. But I'll mention it to my Aunt." - Vogon guard. |
| ~ Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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