Common sense isn't.
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| These words appeased well the common people, such as were simple and good plain men, that were come thither and wist not why. |
| ~ -The Chronicles of Froissart Jean Froissart ~ |
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| Where does any novelist pick up any character? For the most part, in town, to be sure. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. The Confidence-Man (1857), ch. 44, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 10, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1984). ~ |
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| It is for homely features to keep home,- They had their name thence; coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply The sampler and to tease the huswife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinctur'd lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the morn? |
| ~ John Milton, Comus. Line 748. ~ |
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| I beseech the great God of victories, that we be never more employed in such misfortune and disaster. |
| ~ -Battle of Saint Denis, Ambroise Paré ~ |
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| It is possible to make each year bring with it a lasting gift to add to the fullness of experience, to be treasured up, savored, and remembered. They need not be startling, these gifts of the years; they may be things that lie within the reach of all. |
| ~ Grenville Kleiser ~ |
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| Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Redburn (1849), ch. 3, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 4, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1969). ~ |
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| There is no “but” in it. The way to be an administration Senator is to vote with the Administration. |
| ~ William Howard Taft (1857–1930), U.S. president. Letter, Butt to his sister-in-law, Clara F. Butt, March 4, 1910. Archie Butt, Taft and Roosevelt: The Intimate Letters of Archie Butt, Military Aide, 1: 297, Doubleday, Doran & Company (1930). Taft to a senator who had voted for a bill he himself opposed. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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