Common sense isn't.
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| The grand principles of virtue and honor, however they may be distorted by arbitrary codes, are the same the world over: and where these principles are concerned, the right or wrong of any action appears the same to the uncultivated as to the enlightened mind. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Typee (1846), ch. 27, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 1, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1968). ~ |
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| There never was a bad man that had ability for good service. |
| ~ Edmund Burke, Speech in opening the Impeachment of Warren Hastings, Third Day. Vol. x. p. 54. ~ |
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| People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have a reward; but for my part, if I have done the hardest possible day’s work, and then come to sit down in a corner and eat my supper comfortably—why, then I don’t think I deserve any reward for my hard day’s work—for am I not now at peace? Is not my supper good? |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. letter, Nov. 17, 1851, to Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Letters of Herman Melville, eds. Merrell R. Davis and William H. Gilman (1960). ~ |
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| There is no truer truth obtainable By Man than comes of music. |
| ~ Robert Browning, Charles Avison. ~ |
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| One does not become a hero by killing - the truly heroic person never harms a living creature. |
| ~Endowed with the Dharma ~ |
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| The precious porcelain of human clay. |
| ~ Lord Byron, Don Juan. Canto iv. Stanza 11. ~ |
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| O Mirth and Innocence! O milk and water! Ye happy mixtures of more happy days. |
| ~ Lord Byron, Beppo. Stanza 80. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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