Common sense isn't.
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| Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men. |
| ~ Plutarch, Life of Marcus Cato. ~ |
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| Why does pouring oil on the sea make it clear and calm? Is it for that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force, nor cause any waves? |
| ~ Plutarch, Symposiacs. Book viii. Question ix. ~ |
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| Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food. |
| ~ John Milton, Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 239. ~ |
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| Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse. |
| ~ Plutarch, Roman Apophthegms. Cicero. ~ |
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| But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless. |
| ~ Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto ii. Stanza 26. ~ |
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| I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity. |
| ~ Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962), U.S. columnist, lecturer. Today’s Health (Chicago, Oct. 2, 1966). ~ |
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| For truth has such a face and such a mien, As to be lov'd needs only to be seen. |
| ~ John Dryden, The Hind and the Panther. Part i. Line 33. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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