Common sense isn't.
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| Nature is not so much her own ever-sweet interpreter, as the mere supplier of that cunning alphabet, whereby selecting and combining as he pleases, each man reads his own peculiar lesson according to his own peculiar mind and mood. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Pierre (1852), bk. XXV, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 7, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1971). ~ |
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| This is a strange little complacent country, in many ways a U.S.A. in miniature but of course nearer the center of disturbance! |
| ~ Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962), U.S. columnist, lecturer. Letter, May 2, 1951, to her daughter Anna from Geneva. Mother and Daughter: The Letters of Eleanor and Anna Roosevelt (1982). ~ |
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| Those peculiar social sensibilities nourished by our own peculiar political principles, while they enhance the true dignity of a prosperous American, do but minister to the added wretchedness of the unfortunate; first, by prohibiting their acceptance of what little random relief charity may offer; and, second, by furnishing them with the keenest appreciation of the smarting distinction between their ideal of universal equality and their grind-stone experience of the practical misery and infamy of poverty. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. “Poor Man’s Pudding and Rich Man’s Crumbs” (1854), The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces 1839-1860, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 9, eds. Harrison Hayford, Alma A. MacDougall, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). ~ |
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| Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about little puppies. |
| ~Gene Hill ~ |
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| A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, "In silence." |
| ~ Plutarch, Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders. 33 Archelaus. ~ |
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| But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past? |
| ~ Robert Browning, Balaustion's Adventure. ~ |
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| The government is us; we are the government, you and I. |
| ~ Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), U.S. Republican (later Progressive) politician, president. speech, Sept. 9, 1902, Asheville, N.C.. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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