Common sense isn't.
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| Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. |
| ~ Oliver Goldsmith, The Captivity. Act ii. ~ |
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| A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor the man perfected without trials. |
| ~ Chinese Proverb ~ |
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| Liberty and Learning; both best supported when leaning each on the other. |
| ~ Letter to W. T. Barry, August 4, 1822 (James Madison, 1865, III, page 279) and Letter to Elliott Cressen.--for his album. April 23, 1829 (Madison, 1865, IV, page 38) ~ |
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| [F]erments, properly so-called, are living beings, that the germs of microscopic organisms abound in the surface of all objects, in the air and in water. |
| ~ The Germ Theory and Its Applications, Louis Pasteur ~ |
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| Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrify'd, and like a comet burn'd That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war. |
| ~ John Milton, Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 707. ~ |
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| That nameless and infinitely delicate aroma of inexpressible tenderness and attentiveness which, in every refined and honorable attachment, is contemporary with the courtship, and precedes the final banns and the rite; but which, like the bouquet of the costliest German wines, too often evaporates upon pouring love out to drink, in the disenchanting glasses of the matrimonial days and nights. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Pierre (1852), bk. I, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 7, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1971). ~ |
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| I stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand. |
| ~ Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 1. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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