Common sense isn't.
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| When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose. |
| ~ Sir Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errors. ~ |
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| A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, "In silence." |
| ~ Plutarch, Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders. 33 Archelaus. ~ |
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| And new-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy care Turn'd by a gentle fire and roasted rare. |
| ~ John Dryden, Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book viii. Baucis and Philemon, Line 97. ~ |
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| [T]he Constitution of the United States was created by the people of the United States composing the respective states, who alone had the right . . . |
| ~ Outline, September, 1829 (James Madison, 1865, IV, page 19) ~ |
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| Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne. |
| ~ John Milton, Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line 267. ~ |
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| Idealism: Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America, my fellow citizens -- I do not say it in disparagement of any other great people -- America is the only idealistic nation in the world. |
| ~ Woodrow Wilson ---Address supporting the League of Nations, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, September 8, 1919. ~ |
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| I still must think . . . that the text of the Consitution is best interpreted by reference to the tripartite theory of government to which practice has been conformed and which so long and uniform a practice would seem to have established. |
| ~ Letter to Charles Francis Adams, October 13, 1825 (James Madison, 1865, IV, page 385) ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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