Common sense isn't.
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| The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way! |
| ~ William Wordsworth, The Excursion.Book iii. ~ |
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| Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide. |
| ~ Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962), U.S. First Lady, author, and speaker. As quoted in Eleanor and Franklin, ch. 51, by Joseph P. Lash (1971). In a January 21, 1941, speech at the National Conference on the Cause and Cure of War. ~ |
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| Themistocles said that he certainly could not make use of any stringed instrument; could only, were a small and obscure city put into his hands, make it great and glorious. |
| ~ Plutarch, Life of Themistocles. ~ |
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| Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, And foolish notion. |
| ~ Robert Burns, To a Louse. ~ |
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| Some said, "John, print it;" others said, "Not so." Some said, "It might do good;" others said, "No." |
| ~ John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress. Apology for his Book. ~ |
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| The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written. |
| ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. Democratic politician, president. Radio broadcast, March 2, 1930. ~ |
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| Nobody is so heartily despised as a pusillanimous, lazy, good-for-nothing, land-lubber; a sailor has no bowels of compassion for him. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Omoo (1846), ch. 14, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 2, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1968). ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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