Common sense isn't.
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| Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam,- His first, best country ever is at home. |
| ~ Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller. Line 73. ~ |
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| Wine made from barley ... was very strong, and of delicious flavor ... but the taste must be acquired. |
| ~Xenophon, 400 B.C. ~ |
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| I do not know that the United States can save civilization but at least by our example we can make people think and give them the opportunity of saving themselves. The trouble is that the people of Germany, Italy and Japan are not given the privilege of thinking. |
| ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. letter, Dec. 2, 1935, to Ambassador William E. Dodd. The Roosevelt Letters, vol. 3, p. 163, ed. Elliott Roosevelt, George G. Harrup & Co., Ltd. (1952). President Roosevelt believed that democracy gave people the best form of government and best served the interests of humanity. He saw the struggle between the democracies and the totalitarian states as a fight for the survival of human dignity. ~ |
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| Quote of the moment |
| Are there not, dear Michal, Two points in the adventure of the diver,- One, when a beggar he prepares to plunge; One, when a prince he rises with his pearl? Festus, I plunge. |
| ~ Robert Browning, Paracelsus. Part i. ~ |
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| We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth." |
| ~ Thomas Carlyle, Voltaire. Foreign Review, 1829. ~ |
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| They were standing under a tree, each with an arm round the other's neck, and Alice knew which was which in a moment, because one of them had `DUM' embroidered on his collar, and the other `DEE.' |
| ~ Through the Looking-Glass Chapter iv ~ |
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| Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward. |
| ~ Cervantes, Don Quixote. Part i. Book. iii. Chap. viii. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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