Common sense isn't.
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| On Smoking: One very great annoyance in open air gatherings is cigar smoke when blown directly in one's face or worse yet the smoke from a smouldering cigar. It is almost worthy of a study in air currents to discover why with plenty of space all around, a tiny column of smoke will make straight for the nostrils of the very one most nauseated by it! |
| ~ Emily Post, Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home, Chap. VI¶48, 1922 ~ |
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| Cato said, "I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is." |
| ~ Plutarch, Political Precepts. ~ |
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| Republic of letters. |
| ~ Henry Fielding, Tom Jones. Book xiv. Chap. i. ~ |
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| Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to. |
| ~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations. iv. 38. ~ |
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| Jove strikes the Titans down Not when they set about their mountain-piling But when another rock would crown the work. |
| ~ Robert Browning, Paracelsus. Part iv. ~ |
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| I ... believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments. |
| ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. Letter, April 14, 1933, to Arthur Murray, President’s Personal File, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, New York. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Foreign Affairs, vol. I, p. 54, The Belknap Press of Harvard University (1969). on government policies vs. Public opinion. ~ |
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| That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within. |
| ~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations. iv. 8. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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