Common sense isn't.
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| Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. “The Marquis de Grandvin” (posthumous), p. 348, Billy Budd and Other Prose Pieces, The Works of Herman Melville, vol. 13, ed. Raymond M. Weaver (1924). ~ |
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| The name of the slough was Despond. |
| ~ John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress. Part i. ~ |
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| I think it a very happy accident. |
| ~ Cervantes, Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lviii. ~ |
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| Where does any novelist pick up any character? For the most part, in town, to be sure. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. The Confidence-Man (1857), ch. 44, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 10, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1984). ~ |
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| The compound Government of the United States is without a model, and to be explained by itself, not by similitudes or analogies. The terms Union, Federal, National, ought not to be applied to it without the qualifications peculiar to the system. |
| ~ Outline, September, 1829 (James Madison, 1865, IV, page 18) ~ |
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| Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons. |
| ~Robertson Davies ~ |
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| According to Robert S. Alley, the following quote has been falsely attributed to James Madison: We have staked the entire future of the American civilization not upon the power of government, but upon the capacity of the individual to govern himself, to control himself and sustain himself according to the Ten Commandments of God. |
| ~ NOT Madison on Separation of Church and State ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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