Common sense isn't.
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| Let us waive that agitated national topic, as to whether such multitudes of foreign poor should be landed on our American shores; let us waive it, with the one only thought, that if they can get here, they have God’s right to come. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Redburn (1849), ch. 58, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 4, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1969). ~ |
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| Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye. |
| ~ Plutarch, Of the Training of Children. ~ |
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| Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound. |
| ~ (Walter Savage Landor, 1755-1864) in How to Sell 75% of Your Freelance Writing, Gordon Burgett ~ |
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| Fare thee well! and if forever, Still forever fare thee well. |
| ~ Lord Byron, Fare thee well. ~ |
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| Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years. |
| ~ Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Washington, March 5, 1780. ~ |
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| "`_Aha!_' means `We'll tell you where Baby Roo is, if you promise to go away from the Forest and never come back.' Now don't talk while I think." Pooh went into a corner and tried to saying `Aha!' in that sort of voice. Sometimes it seemed to him that it did mean what Rabbit said, and sometimes it seemed to him that it didn't. "I suppose it's just practice," he thought. |
| ~ -- "Aha" really means all that? _Winnie-the-Pooh_, p. 84 ~ |
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| Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. |
| ~ John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 163. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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