Common sense isn't.
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| I have a soul that like an ample shield Can take in all, and verge enough for more. |
| ~ John Dryden, Don Sebastian. Act i. Sc. 1. ~ |
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| Dusk faces with white silken turbans wreath'd. |
| ~ John Milton, Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line 76. ~ |
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| No free country has ever been without parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom. |
| ~ Notes on Suffrage, written at different periods after his retirement from public life (James Madison, 1865, IV, page 24) ~ |
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| As in the eye of Nature he has lived, So in the eye of Nature let him die! |
| ~ William Wordsworth, The Old Cumberland Beggar. ~ |
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| She would rather light a candle than curse the darkness, and her glow has warmed the world. |
| ~ Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965), U.S. Democratic politician. quoted in New York Times (Nov. 8, 1962). Comment on learning of Eleanor Roosevelt’s death. Stevenson was quoting the motto of the Christopher Society, “It is better to light one candle than curse the darkness.” According to Brewer’s Quotations, ed. Nigel Rees (1994), this in turn is a Chinese proverb. ~ |
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| Whatever has made, or does make, or may make music, should be held sacred as the golden bridle-bit of the Shah of Persia’s horse, and the golden hammer, with which his hoofs are shod. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Redburn (1849), ch. 49, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 4, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1969). ~ |
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| Chapter 27 : do not revile an elder 01 Do not revile one older than You, (for) 02 he has seen Re before You. 03 Let (him) not report You to the Aten at his rising, 04 saying : 'A youth has reviled an old man.' 05 Very painful before Re, 06 is a youth who reviles an elder. 07 Let him beat You while your hand is on your chest, 08 let him revile You while You are silent. 09 If the next day You come before him, 10 he will give You food in plenty. 11 A dog's food is from its master, (and) 12 he barks to him who gives it. |
| ~ The Instruction of Amenemope, Akhim, Egypt, ~1100 BC ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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