Common sense isn't.
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| Honesty is the best policy. |
| ~ Cervantes, Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiii. ~ |
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| These South savannahs may yet prove battle-fields. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Mardi (1849), ch. 162, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 3, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1970). Spoken by Mohi, the historian, about slavery. ~ |
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| A Government like ours has so many safety-valves, giving vent to overheated passions, that it carries within itself a relief against the infirmities from which the best of human Institutions cannot be exempt. |
| ~ Letter to General La Fayette, November 25, 1820 (James Madison, 1865, III , pages 189-191) ~ |
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| A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature. |
| ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays. First Series. Friendship. ~ |
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| Themistocles said that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can be shown only by spreading and extending it out; when it is contracted and folded up, they are obscured and lost. |
| ~ Plutarch, Life of Themistocles. ~ |
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| Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men. |
| ~ Plutarch, Life of Marcus Cato. ~ |
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| Large districts are manifestly favorable to the election of persons of general respectability and of probable attachments to the rights of property, over competitors depending on the personal solicitations practicable on a contracted theatre.. |
| ~ Notes on Suffrage, written at different periods after his retirement from public life (James Madison, 1865, IV, page 27) ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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