Common sense isn't.
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| The unspeakable Turk. |
| ~ Thomas Carlyle, In public letter, 1877. ~ |
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| March Beer is a drink for a King, Then let us be merry, wash sorrow away, Beer and ale shall be drunk to-day. |
| ~17th Century English Song ~ |
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| If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief. |
| ~ Sophocles, Scyrii. Frag. 510. ~ |
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| If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere ease of life, then we shall indeed reach a condition worse than that of the ancient civilizations in the years of their decay. |
| ~ THEODORE ROOSEVELT, “The Law of Civilization and Decay,” American Ideals (vol. 13 of The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, national ed.), chapter 15, pp. 259–60 (1926). This review of The Law of Civilization and Decay by Brooks Adams appeared in The Forum, January 1897. ~ |
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| A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses. |
| ~ John Milton, Comus. Line 205. ~ |
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| Diligence is the mother of good fortune. |
| ~ Cervantes, Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xliii. ~ |
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| There ought to be some sign in a book about Man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least. |
| ~ (Frank Moore Colby, 1926) in How to Sell 75% of Your Freelance Writing, Gordon Burgett ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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