Common sense isn't.
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| The result of civilization, at the Sandwich Islands and elsewhere, is found productive to the civilizers, destructive to the civilizees. It is said to be compensation—a very philosophical word; but it appears to be very much on the principle of the old game, “You lose, I win”: good philosophy for the winner. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. “The South Seas” (1858-59), The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces 1839-1860, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 9, eds. Harrison Hayford, Alma A. MacDougall, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). A lecture. ~ |
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| I don’t see why we can’t get along just as well with a polygamist who doesn’t polyg as we do with a lot of monogamists who don’t monog! |
| ~ Attributed to Senator BOIES PENROSE.—Francis T. Plimpton, speech, quoted in Reader’s Digest, June 1958, p. 142. These words were supposedly said in the Senate where a protest had arisen against seating Reed Smoot, the first Mormon senator, in 1903. Not verified in newspapers or accounts of that time. Also attributed, with variation in the wording, to President Theodore Roosevelt, while he was campaigning in 1902.—Bennett Cerf, The Laugh’s on Me, p. 350 (1959). ~ |
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| "Here I will stay in the summer, in the winter, as well as the spring." So thinks the fool - he never dreams that obstacles might rise before him. |
| ~The Path ~ |
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| You are speaking before a man to whom all Naples is known. |
| ~ Moliere, L'Avare. Act v. Sc. 5. ~ |
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| Let not thy mind run on what thou lackest as much as on what thou hast already. |
| ~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations. vii. 27. ~ |
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| For some time now Pooh had been saying "Yes" and "No" in turn, with his eyes shut, to all that Owl was saying, and having said, "Yes, yes," last time, he said, "No, not at all," now, without really knowing what Owl was talking about. |
| ~ -- Pooh loses concentration _Winnie-the-Pooh_, p. 46 ~ |
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| Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. |
| ~Jeff Valdez ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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