Common sense isn't.
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| And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain. |
| ~ William Wordsworth, The Excursion.Book iv. ~ |
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| I will sketch for your consideration a substitute which has occurred to myself for the faulty part of the Constitution in question: "The electors to be chosen in districts, not more than two in any one district . . . Each elector to give two votes, one naming his first choice, the other his next choice. If there be a majority of all the votes on the first list for the same person, he of course to be President; if not, and there be a majority . . . on the other list for the same person, he then to be the final choice; if there be no such majority on either list, then a choice to be made by joint ballot of the two Houses of Congress from the two names having the greatest number of votes on the two ballots taken together." . . . The same process might be observed in electing the Vice President. |
| ~ Letter to George Hay, August 23, 1823 (James Madison, III, page 335.) ~ |
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| Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business. To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk; And this our queen shall be as drunk as we. |
| ~ Henry Fielding, Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 2. ~ |
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| Sweetest melodies Are those that are by distance made more sweet. |
| ~ William Wordsworth, Personal Talk. Stanza 2. ~ |
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| You can see farther into a millstone than he. |
| ~ Cervantes, Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap xxviii. ~ |
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| We have oftener than once endeavoured to attach some meaning to that aphorism, vulgarly imputed to Shaftesbury, which however we can find nowhere in his works, that "ridicule is the test of truth." |
| ~ Thomas Carlyle, Voltaire. Foreign Review, 1829. ~ |
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| These my sky-robes spun out of Iris' woof. |
| ~ John Milton, Comus. Line 83. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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