Common sense isn't.
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| If . . . the powers of the General Government be carried to unconstitutional lengths, it will be the result of a majority of the States and of the people, actuated by some impetuous feeling, or some real or supposed interest, overruling the minority, and not of successful attempts by the General Government to overpower both. |
| ~ Letter to John G. Jackson, Dec. 27, 1821 (James Madison, 1865, III, pages 243-247) ~ |
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| The strong arm, my lord, is no argument, though it overcomes all logic. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Mardi (1849), ch. 104, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 3, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1970). Spoken by Babbalanja, the philosopher. ~ |
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| None are so desolate but something dear, Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd A thought, and claims the homage of a tear. |
| ~ Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto ii. Stanza 24. ~ |
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| Here the Red Queen began again. "Can you answer useful questions?" she said. "How is bread made?" "I know _that_!" Alice cried eagerly. "You take some flour---" "Where do you pick the flower?" the White Queen asked. "in a garden or in the hedges?" "Well, it isn't _picked_ at all," Alice explained: "it's _ground_---" "How many acres of ground?" said the White Queen. "You mustn't leave out so many things." |
| ~ Through the Looking-Glass Chapter ix ~ |
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| None has begun to think how divine he himself is and how certain the future is. |
| ~ Walt Whitman, Starting from Paumanok. 7. ~ |
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| God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation. |
| ~Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) ~ |
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| I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who have not got the guts to bite people themselves. |
| ~August Strindberg ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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