Common sense isn't.
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| Of all that is most beauteous, imaged there In happier beauty; more pellucid streams, An ampler ether, a diviner air, And fields invested with purpureal gleams. |
| ~ William Wordsworth, Laodamia. ~ |
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| A few strong instincts, and a few plain rules. |
| ~ William Wordsworth, Alas! what boots the long laborious Quest? ~ |
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| Man was not made to succumb to the villain Woe. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Pierre (1852), bk. III, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 7, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1971). ~ |
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| General de Gaulle was a thoroughly bad boy. The day he arrived, he thought he was Joan of Arc and the following day he insisted that he was Georges Clemenceau. |
| ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. letter, Feb. 13, 1943, to John A. Roosevelt. The Roosevelt Letters, vol. 3, p. 457, ed. Elliott Roosevelt, George G. Harrup & Co., Ltd. (1952). FDR disliked de Gaulle; he thought him pompous and arrogant. This was an opinion which was re-enforced by the General’s demeanor at the Casablanca Conference to which this letter referred. ~ |
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| "... `Edwin and Morcar', the earls of Mercia and Northumbria, declared for him; and even Stigand, the patriotic archbishop of Canterbury, found it advisable---'" "Found _what_?" said the Duck. "Found _it_," the Mouse replied rather crossly: "of course you know what `it' means." "I know what `it' means well enough, when _I_ find a thing," said the Duck: "it's generally a frog or a worm. The question is, what did the archbishop find?" |
| ~ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Chapter iii ~ |
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| No free country has ever been without parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom. |
| ~ Notes on Suffrage, written at different periods after his retirement from public life (James Madison, 1865, IV, page 24) ~ |
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| So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft, "With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten." |
| ~ Aeschylus, Frag. 135 (trans. by Plumptre). ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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