Common sense isn't.
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| Quote of the moment |
| The two great points of difference between a democracy and a republic are: first, the delegation of the government, in the latter, to a small number of citizens elected by the rest; secondly, the greater number of citizens, and greater sphere of country, over which the latter may be extended. |
| ~ Federalist, no. 10 (James Madison) ~ |
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| You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand to. |
| ~ Cervantes, Don Quixote. Part i. Book. iii. Chap. xi. ~ |
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| I take such men to be inspired. I fancy that this moment Shakespeare in heaven ranks with Gabriel Raphael and Michael. And if another Messiah ever comes twill be in Shakespeare’s person. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. letter, Feb. 24, 1849, to Evert A. Duyckinck. Correspondence, vol. 14, The Writings of Herman Melville, ed. Lynn Horth (1993). ~ |
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| Quote of the moment |
| I can tell where my own shoe pinches me; and you must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff. |
| ~ Cervantes, Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. v. ~ |
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| It [Poesy] was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind by submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind. |
| ~ Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning. Book ii. (1605). ~ |
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| The old proverb was now made good, "the mountain had brought forth a mouse." |
| ~ Plutarch, Life of Agesilaus II. ~ |
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| Quote of the moment |
| Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit. |
| ~ Woodrow Wilson ---Address to the United States Senate on essential terms of peace in Europe, January 22, 1917. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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