Common sense isn't.
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| [T]heories are the offspring of the closet; exceptions and qualifications are the lessons of experience. |
| ~ Letter to Charles J. Ingersoll, December 30, 1835 (James Madison, 1865, IV, page 388) ~ |
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| Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws. |
| ~ William Wordsworth, O, Friend! I know not which way I must look. ~ |
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| This peck of troubles. |
| ~ Cervantes, Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. liii. ~ |
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| Chamberlain’s visit to Hitler today may bring things to a head or may result in a temporary postponement of what looks to me like an inevitable conflict within the next five years. |
| ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. letter, Sept. 15, 1938, to William Phillips, U.S. Ambassador to Italy. The Roosevelt Letters, vol. 3, p. 241, ed. Elliott Roosevelt, George G. Harrup & Co., Ltd. (1952). On the possible vs. probable results of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s attempt at appeasement of Hitler at Munich. The President’s real sentiments regarding Chamberlain’s deal with Hitler were best expressed to Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, who recorded that the President told him that the British Prime Minister “was interested in peace at any price if he could get away with it.” Morgenthau Papers Diaries, Book 138, September 1, 1938, p. 34. Franklin D. Roosevelt Library. ~ |
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| Never harming those who would hurt us, how wonderful our lives become - never harmed even in the midst of harmful people. |
| ~Joy ~ |
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| Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain. |
| ~ John Milton, Il Penseroso. Line 173. ~ |
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| Writing has laws of perspective, of night and shade, just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself. |
| ~ (Truman Capote, 1958) in How to Sell 75% of Your Freelance Writing, Gordon Burgett ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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