Common sense isn't.
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| Quote of the moment |
| Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave. |
| ~ Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iii. Stanza 27. ~ |
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| Traveling takes the ink out of one’s pen as well as the cash out of one’s purse. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. letter, Dec. 2, 1849, to Evert A. Duyckinck. Correspondence, vol. 14, The Writings of Herman Melville, ed. Lynn Horth (1993). ~ |
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| At banquets surfeit not, but fill; partake, and retire; and eat not again till you crave. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Mardi (1849), ch. 176, 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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| Quote of the moment |
| Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country. |
| ~ Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), U.S. Republican (later Progressive) politician, president. Kansas City Star (April 27, 1918). ~ |
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| As far as laws are necessary to mark with precision the duties of those who are to obey them, and to take from those who are to administer them a discretion which might be abused, their number is the price of liberty. As far as laws exceed this limit they are a nuisance; a nuisance of the most pestilent kind. |
| ~ (James Madison) Notes on the Confederacy--April, 1787 ~ |
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| xvi. What is the first business of one who studies philosophy? To part with self-conceit. For it is impossible for any one to begin to learn what he thinks that he already knows. |
| ~ Epictetus, How to apply general Principles to particular Cases. Chap. xvii. ~ |
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| Quote of the moment |
| One who holds tightly to self-discipline and clears away all inner pollution, one endowed with both discipline and truth, is worthy of the saffron robes. |
| ~Twin Verses ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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