Common sense isn't.
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| I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. |
| ~ Walt Whitman, Song of Myself. 52. ~ |
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| The meaning collected from the general scope, and from a collation of the several parts [of the Virginia Resolutions] ought not to be affected by a particular word or phrase not irreconcilable with all the rest, and not made more precise, because no danger of their being misunderstood was thought of. |
| ~ Letter to N. P. Trist, February 1830 (James Madison, 1865, IV, page 58) ~ |
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| beauty is like piety—you cannot run and read it; tranquility and constancy, with, now-a-days, an easy chair, are needed. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. “The Piazza” (1856), The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces 1839-1860, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 9, eds. Harrison Hayford, Alma A. MacDougall, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). ~ |
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| To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Moby-Dick (1851), ch. 104, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 6, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1988). ~ |
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| The uttered part of a man's life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown proportion. He himself never knows it, much less do others. |
| ~ Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter Scott. London and Westminster Review, 1838. ~ |
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| To remain discouraged is not the way of a human being, we are not birds and animals, so it is not enough for us to simply lament and complain but we should use our intelligence and work hard. |
| ~ The Path to Tranquility, June 21, 14th Dalai Lama ~ |
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| I fear God, dear Abner, and I have no other fear. |
| ~ -Racine: Athalie, act i. sc. 1 ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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