Common sense isn't.
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| From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,- A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropp'd from the Zenith like a falling star. |
| ~ John Milton, Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 742. ~ |
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| [T]he Union of so many States is in the eyes of a world, a wonder; the harmonious establishment of a government over them all, a miracle. |
| ~ Speech in the Virginia State Convention of 1829-'30, December 2, 1829 (James Madison, 1865, IV, pages 54-55) ~ |
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| From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly. |
| ~ (Quintilian, A.D. 95) in How to Sell 75% of Your Freelance Writing, Gordon Burgett ~ |
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| The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonized the whole,- And oh, that eye was in itself a soul! |
| ~ Lord Byron, The Bride of Abydos. Canto i. Stanza 6. ~ |
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| Twelve o’clock! It is the natural centre, key-stone, and very heart of the day. At that hour, the sun has arrived at the top of his hill; and as he seems to hang poised there a while, before coming down on the other side, it is but reasonable to suppose that he is then stopping to dine; setting an eminent example to all mankind. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. White-Jacket (1850), ch. 7, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 5, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1969). ~ |
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| On Expression: The letter we all love to receive is one that carries so much of the writer's personality that she seems to be sitting beside us, looking at us directly and talking just as she really would, could she have come on a magic carpet, instead of sending her proxy in ink-made characters on mere paper. |
| ~ Emily Post, Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home, Chap. XXVIII¶56, 1922 ~ |
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| This is ... a trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do—namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions. |
| ~ Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962), U.S. author, speaker, and First Lady. As quoted in Eleanor: The Years Alone, ch. 4, by Joseph P. Lash (1972). From her “My Day” column, published in the Ladies’ Home Journal on November 11, 1946. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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