Common sense isn't.
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| The tendency of a longer period of service would be to render the body more stable in its policy, and more capable of stemming popular currents taking a wrong direction, till reason and justice could regain their ascendancy. |
| ~ Notes on Suffrage, written at different periods after his retirement from public life (James Madison, 1865, IV, page 27) ~ |
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| Th' imperial ensign, which full high advanc'd Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind. |
| ~ John Milton, Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 536. ~ |
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| His duty he always faithfully did; but duty is sometimes a dry obligation, and he was for irrigating its aridity, whensoever possible, with a fertilizing decoction of strong waters. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Billy Budd, Sailor (posthumous), ch 1, eds. Harrison Hayford and Merton M. Sealts, Jr. (1962). Referring to a British impressment officer visiting a merchant ship. ~ |
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| My days are in the yellow leaf; The flowers and fruits of love are gone; The worm, the canker, and the grief Are mine alone! |
| ~ Lord Byron, On my Thirty-sixth Year. ~ |
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| Traveling takes the ink out of one’s pen as well as the cash out of one’s purse. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. letter, Dec. 2, 1849, to Evert A. Duyckinck. Correspondence, vol. 14, The Writings of Herman Melville, ed. Lynn Horth (1993). ~ |
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| He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread. |
| ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Beauty. ~ |
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| A piece of grass a day keeps the vet away |
| ~Unknown Dog ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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