Common sense isn't.
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| The precious porcelain of human clay. |
| ~ Lord Byron, Don Juan. Canto iv. Stanza 11. ~ |
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| Thrice he assay'd, and thrice in spite of scorn Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth. |
| ~ John Milton, Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 619. ~ |
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| I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a man as Plutarch, than that they should say, "Plutarch is an unsteady, fickle, froward, vindictive, and touchy fellow." |
| ~ Plutarch, Of Superstition. ~ |
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| I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. |
| ~ John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada. Part i. Act i. Sc. 1. ~ |
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| Say what they will of the glowing independence one feels in the saddle, give me the first morning flush of your cheery pedestrian! |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Omoo (1846), ch. 67, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 2, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1968). ~ |
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| Whilst it is universally admitted that a well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people, and whilst it is evident that the means of diffusing and improving useful knowledge form so small a proportion of the expenditures for national purposes, I can not presume it to be unseasonable to invite your attention to the advantages of superadding to the means of education provided by the several States a seminary of learning instituted by the National Legislature within the limits of their exclusive jurisdiction, the expense of which might be defrayed or reimbursed out of the vacant grounds which have accrued to the nation within those limits. Such an institution, though local in its legal character, would be universal in its beneficial effects. By enlightening the opinions, by expanding the patriotism, and by assimilating the principles, the sentiments, and the manners of those who might resort to this temple of science, to be redistributed in due time through every part of the community, sources of jealousy and prejudice would be diminished, the features of national character would be multiplied, and greater extent given to social harmony. But, above all, a well-constituted seminary in the center of the nation is recommended by the consideration that the additional instruction emanating from it would contribute not less to strengthen the foundations than to adorn the structure of our free and happy system of government. |
| ~ (James Madison) State of the Union, 1810 ~ |
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| Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centres in the mind. |
| ~ Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller. Line 423. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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