Common sense isn't.
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| War should be carried on like a monsoon; one changeless determination of every particle towards the one unalterable aim. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Israel Potter (1855), ch. 10, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 8, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1982). Spoken by a fictional John Paul Jones. ~ |
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| We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people—the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. White-Jacket (1850), ch. 36, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 5, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1969). ~ |
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| She was his life, The ocean to the river of his thoughts, Which terminated all. |
| ~ Lord Byron, The Dream. Stanza 2. ~ |
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| The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and - therefore - to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops instead of the family gathering places that they ought to be. |
| ~George Orwell (1903-1950) ~ |
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| In the Virginia resolutions and reports the plural number, States, is in every instance used . . . As I am now known to have drawn these documents, I may say . . . that the distinction was intentional . . . The Kentucky resolutions, being less guarded, have been more easily perverted. |
| ~ Letter to N. P. Trist, December 23, 1832 (James Madison, 1865, IV, page 228) ~ |
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| It's not the situation ... It's your reaction to the situation |
| ~Robert Conklin ~ |
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| Back and side go bare, go bare, Both foot and hand go cold; But, belly, God send thee good ale enough, Whether it be new or old. |
| ~Bishop Still, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1551 ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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