Common sense isn't.
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| It is not unkind to say, from the standpoint of scenery alone, that if many, and indeed most, of our American national parks were to be set down on the continent of Europe thousands of Americans would journey all the way across the ocean in order to see their beauties. |
| ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. The Wit and Wisdom of Franklin D. Roosevelt, On America, p. 6, eds. Peter and Helen Beilenson, Peter Pauper Press (1982). On the beauty and grandeur of national parks. ~ |
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| When the hour is nigh me, Let me in a tavern die, With a tankard by me. |
| ~Archpoet, Confessio, 12th Century ~ |
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| She does not realize that the only difference between us is that she is on one stage and I on another. I feel that I am acting just as much as she is. |
| ~ William Howard Taft (1857–1930), U.S. president. Taft to Butt, cited by Butt, January 12, 1910. Archie Butt, Taft and Roosevelt: The Intimate Letters of Archie Butt, Military Aide, 1: 258, Doubleday, Doran & Company (1930). Taft’s comment when a female singer concentrated on him throughout an opera. ~ |
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| Lord of himself,-that heritage of woe! |
| ~ Lord Byron, Lara. Canto i. Stanza 2. ~ |
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| "Antiquitas sęculi juventus mundi." These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves. |
| ~ Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning. Book i. (1605). ~ |
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| Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job. |
| ~Franklin P. Jones ~ |
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| "The earth loveth the shower," and "the holy ether knoweth what love is." The Universe, too, loves to create whatsoever is destined to be made. |
| ~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations. x. 21. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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