Common sense isn't.
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| Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient. |
| ~ von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister. Book vii. Chap. ix. ~ |
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| Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them. |
| ~ Epictetus, Concerning the Epicureans. Chap. xx. ~ |
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| You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us. |
| ~Robert Louis Stevenson ~ |
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| Can there be a more horrible object in existence than an eloquent man not speaking the truth? |
| ~ Thomas Carlyle, Address as Lord Rector of Edinburgh University, 1866. ~ |
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| When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him. |
| ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. David Dallek, Franklin Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy: 1932-1945, p. 288, Oxford University Press (1979). When the President wished to authorize the use of U.S. warships to seek out German submarines operating in the western Atlantic, this was the rationale he presented to the public. ~ |
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| O God! it is a fearful thing To see the human soul take wing In any shape, in any mood. |
| ~ Lord Byron, Prisoner of Chillon. Stanza 8. ~ |
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| I do not allow myself to be moved by anything except the law. If there has been a mistake in the law, or if I think there has been perjury or injustice, I will weigh the petition most carefully, but I do not permit myself to be moved by more harrowing details, and I try to treat each case as if I was reviewing it or hearing it for the first time from the bench. |
| ~ William Howard Taft (1857–1930), U.S. president. Letter, Butt to his sister-in-law, Clara F. Butt, August 23, 1909. Archie Butt, Taft and Roosevelt: The Intimate Letters of Archie Butt, Military Aide, 1: 183, Doubleday, Doran & Company (1930). Taft to Butt after reading a petition for a pardon in a Georgia case of peonage. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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