Common sense isn't.
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| Might shake the saintship of an anchorite. |
| ~ Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto i. Stanza 11. ~ |
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| Civilization, for every advantage she imparts, holds a hundred evils in reserve;Mthe heart burnings, the jealousies, the social rivalries, the family dissensions, and the thousand self-inflicted discomforts of refined life, which make up in units the swelling aggregate of human misery. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Typee (1846), ch. 17, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 1, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1968). ~ |
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| How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smil'd! |
| ~ John Milton, Comus. Line 249. ~ |
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| But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity. |
| ~ William Wordsworth, Lines completed a few miles above Tintern Abbey. ~ |
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| In the night all cats are gray. |
| ~ Cervantes, Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiii. ~ |
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| In order to understand the true nature of the Constitution of the United States, the error must be avoided . . . of viewing it through the medium, of a Consolidated [unitary] Government, or of a Confederated Government, whilst it is neither the one nor the other; but a mixture of both. |
| ~ (James Madison) North American Review, October, 1830 (Peterson, 1974, 2, pages 398-399) ~ |
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| I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want. |
| ~ Terence, Eunuchus. Act ii. Sc. 2, 12. (243.) ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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