Common sense isn't.
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| Abstain from beans; that is, keep out of public offices, for anciently the choice of the officers of state was made by beans. |
| ~ Plutarch, Of the Training of Children. ~ |
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| Chapter 25 : respect god's will 01 Do not laugh at a blind man. 02 Nor tease a dwarf. 03 Nor cause hardship for the lame. 04 Do not tease a man who is in the hand of the god, 05 nor be angry with him for his failings. 06 Man is clay and straw, 07 the god is his builder. 08 He tears down, he builds up daily. 09 He makes a thousand poor by his will. 10 He makes a thousand men into chiefs, 11 when he is in his hour of life. 12 Happy is he who reaches the West, 13 when he is safe in the hand of the god. |
| ~ The Instruction of Amenemope, Akhim, Egypt, ~1100 BC ~ |
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| Chapter 25 : respect god's will 01 Do not laugh at a blind man. 02 Nor tease a dwarf. 03 Nor cause hardship for the lame. 04 Do not tease a man who is in the hand of the god, 05 nor be angry with him for his failings. 06 Man is clay and straw, 07 the god is his builder. 08 He tears down, he builds up daily. 09 He makes a thousand poor by his will. 10 He makes a thousand men into chiefs, 11 when he is in his hour of life. 12 Happy is he who reaches the West, 13 when he is safe in the hand of the god. |
| ~ The Instruction of Amenemope, Akhim, Egypt, ~1100 BC ~ |
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| He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. |
| ~ John Milton, Lycidas. Line 10. ~ |
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| He [Roosevelt] has made some speeches that indicate that he is going quite beyond anything that he advocated when he was in the White House, and has proposed a program which is absolutely impossible to carry out except by a revision of the Constitution. |
| ~ William Howard Taft (1857–1930), U.S. president. Letter to his brother, Charles, September 10, 1910. Henry F. Pringle, The Life and Times of William Howard Taft, 2: 573, Farrar & Rinehart (1939). Taft wrote ten days after Roosevelt announced his New Nationalism in a speech at Osawatomie, Kansas, August 31, 1910. ~ |
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| When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of oratory, he answered, "Action;" and which was the second, he replied, "Action;" and which was the third, he still answered, "Action." |
| ~ Plutarch, Lives of the Ten Orators. ~ |
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| Oh! mock not the poniarded heart. The stabbed man knows the steel; prate not to him that it is only a ticking feather. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Pierre (1852), bk. IV, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 7, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1971). ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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