Common sense isn't.
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| Washington is full of famous men and the women they married when they were young. |
| ~ FANNY DIXWELL HOLMES, remark to President Theodore Roosevelt at the reception preceding a dinner at the White House in honor of her husband, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, January 8, 1903.—Catherine Drinker Bowen, Yankee from Olympus, p. 362 (1944). ~ |
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| Farmer direct the stream; archers straighten the arrow's shaft; carpenters shape the wood; the spiritual work on themselves. |
| ~Punishment ~ |
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| There is much to be said against the climate on the coast of British Columbia and Alaska; yet, I believe that the scenery of one good day will compensate the tourists who will go there in increasing numbers. |
| ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. letter, Aug. 26, 1944, to Prime Minister W.L. MacKenzie King of Canada. The Roosevelt Letters, vol. 3, p. 510, ed. Elliott Roosevelt, George G. Harrup & Co., Ltd. (1952). ~ |
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| According as the man is, so must you humour him. |
| ~ Terence, Adelphoe. Act iii. Sc. 3, 77. (431.) ~ |
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| The fool busies himself thinking: "These are my sons, this wealth is mine." But he does not even belong to himself, so what can be said of sons and wealth? |
| ~The Fool ~ |
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| "Honour thy father and thy mother" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness. |
| ~ Aeschylus, Suppliants, 707. ~ |
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| The voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve. |
| ~ THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY, speech on parliamentary reform, March 2, 1831.—The Complete Writings of Lord Macaulay, vol. 17, p. 18 (1900). President Franklin D. Roosevelt paraphrased slightly “The words of the great essayist,” not named: “The voice of great events is proclaiming to us. Reform if you would preserve,” in his address at the Democratic state convention, Syracuse, New York, September 29, 1936.—The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936, p. 390 (1938). ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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