Common sense isn't.
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| On the Opera: Excepting a religious ceremonial, there is no occasion where greater dignity of manner is required of ladies and gentlemen both, than in occupying a box at the opera. For a gentleman especially no other etiquette is so exacting. |
| ~ Emily Post, Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home, Chap. VI¶1, 1922 ~ |
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| We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe. |
| ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935) ~ |
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| And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy. |
| ~ Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village. Line 263. ~ |
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| Vigilant among the heedless, and awake among the sleeping, the wise are like fine horses, leaving the nags behind. |
| ~Vigilance ~ |
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| Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden,—what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear! |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Typee (1846), ch. 25, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 1, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1968). ~ |
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| Did all the lets and bars appear To every just or larger end, Whence should come the trust and cheer? Youth must its ignorant impulse lend— Age finds place in the rear. All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys, The champions and enthusiasts of the state: |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. poet, novelist. The March into Virginia (l. 1–7). . . Selected Poems of Herman Melville. Hennig Cohen, ed. (1991) Fordham University Press. ~ |
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| There 's nothing like being used to a thing. |
| ~ Richard Sheridan, The Rivals. Act v. Sc. 3. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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