Common sense isn't.
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| A sanction is essential to the idea of law, as coercion is to that of Government. |
| ~ (James Madison) Notes on the Confederacy--April, 1787 ~ |
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| The dice of Zeus fall ever luckily. |
| ~ Sophocles, Phædra. Frag. 809. ~ |
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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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| Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after. |
| ~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations. vii. 34. ~ |
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| We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries: "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did;" and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. |
| ~ Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler. Part i. Chap. v. ~ |
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| ‘Tis right to fight for freedom, whoever be the thrall. |
| ~ 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 Yoomy, the poet, about slavery. ~ |
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| There were two brothers called Both and Either; perceiving Either was a good, understanding, busy fellow, and Both a silly fellow and good for little, Philip said, "Either is both, and Both is neither." |
| ~ Plutarch, Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders. 35 Philip. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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