Common sense isn't.
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| It [Poesy] was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind by submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind. |
| ~ Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning. Book ii. (1605). ~ |
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| Longing for eternity exists because we cherish ourselves, provided our daily life is happy. But if it is miserable, then you want to shorten life. |
| ~ The Path to Tranquility, November 10, 14th Dalai Lama ~ |
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| Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones. |
| ~ Cervantes, Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lv. ~ |
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| The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.... The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully. |
| ~ Walter Lippmann (1889–1974), U.S. journalist. repr. in The Essential Lippman, pt. 10, sct. 5 (1982). “Roosevelt Is Gone,” New York Herald Tribune (April 14, 1945). ~ |
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| There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. The Confidence-Man (1857), ch. 6, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 10, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1984). Spoken by the wooden-legged man. ~ |
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| The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger. |
| ~ John Milton, Comus. Line 38. ~ |
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| Beer Lord's Prayer: Our barrel which is on draught, let your beer tap, its will be done. Be in all the restaurants and pubs, and forgive our thirst as we forgive our waiters, and lead us not to the police station, but deprive us of all the nasty teetotallers. |
| ~Found on workers' toilet wall, brewery in Slovakia ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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