Common sense isn't.
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| I 'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon. |
| ~ Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer. Act i. ~ |
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| Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable thought that he and all other sentient beings are doomed to complete annihilation after such long-continued slow progress. To those who fully admit the immortality of the human soul, the destruction of our world will not appear so dreadful. |
| ~ Charles Darwin, From Life and Letters. ~ |
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| On the whole, yes, I would rather be the Chief Justice of the United States, and a quieter life than that which becomes at the White House is more in keeping with the temperament, but when taken into consideration that I go into history as President, and my children and my children’s children are the better placed on account of that fact, I am inclined to think that to be President well compensates one for all the trials and criticisms he has to bear and undergo. |
| ~ William Howard Taft (1857–1930), U.S. president. Letter, Butt to his sister-in-law, Clara F. Butt, March 4, 1910. Archie Butt, Taft and Roosevelt: The Intimate Letters of Archie Butt, Military Aide, 1: 294, Doubleday, Doran & Company (1930). Butt was citing Taft’s reply to James C. Hemphill, Democrat, longtime editor of the Charleston News and Courier, upon being asked if he liked being President. ~ |
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| The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases. |
| ~ -I., Edward Jenner ~ |
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| A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood. |
| ~ Edmund Burke, Speech on the Conciliation of America. Vol. ii. p. 117. ~ |
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| They told me this story, ... while we were waiting for an up-train. I supplied the beer. The tale was cheap at a gallon and a half. |
| ~Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) ~ |
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| Lampis, the sea commander, being asked how he got his wealth, answered, "My greatest estate I gained easily enough, but the smaller slowly and with much labour." |
| ~ Plutarch, Whether an Aged Man ought to meddle in State Affairs. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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