Common sense isn't.
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| His only fault is that he has no fault. |
| ~ Pliny the Younger, Letters. Book ix. Letter xxvi. 1. ~ |
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| [T]he right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon . . . has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right. |
| ~ (James Madison) Virginia Resolutions, 1798 ~ |
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| All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth. |
| ~ Edmund Burke, Letter i. On a Regicide Peace. Vol. v. p. 286. ~ |
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| My valour is certainly going! it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out, as it were, at the palm of my hands! |
| ~ Richard Sheridan, The Rivals. Act v. Sc. 3. ~ |
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| The peerless cup afloat Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph Swims bearing high above her head. |
| ~ Robert Browning, Paracelsus. Part iv. ~ |
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| Charge a man with one misdemeanor, and all his peccadilloes are raked up and assorted before him. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Omoo (1846), ch. 79, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 2, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1968). ~ |
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| Fill'd the air with barbarous dissonance. |
| ~ John Milton, Comus. Line 550. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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