Common sense isn't.
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| Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Redburn (1849), ch. 3, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 4, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1969). ~ |
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| Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night? |
| ~ John Milton, Comus. Line 221. ~ |
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| Much may be expected from the progress and diffusion of political science in dissipating errors, opposed to the sound principles which harmonize different interests . . . |
| ~ Letter to ____ ____, March, 1836 (James Madison, IV, page 430) ~ |
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| For many, as Cranton tells us, and those very wise men, not now but long ago, have deplored the condition of human nature, esteeming life a punishment, and to be born a man the highest pitch of calamity; this, Aristotle tells us, Silenus declared when he was brought captive to Midas. |
| ~ Plutarch, Consolation to Apollonius. ~ |
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| The Public is an old woman. Let her maunder and mumble. |
| ~ Thomas Carlyle, Journal. (1835). ~ |
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| Who knows but life be that which men call death, And death what men call life? |
| ~ Euripides, Phrixus. Frag. 830. ~ |
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| Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking. |
| ~ Terence, Heautontimoroumenos. Act iv. Sc. 2, 8. (675.) ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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