Common sense isn't.
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| When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but he that saith it never heard the sound of trumpets." |
| ~ Plutarch, Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders. 62 Eudæmonidas. ~ |
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| I myself still occasionally become irritated and angry and use harsh words toward others. Then, a few moments later when the anger has subsided, I feel embarrassed; the negative words are already spoken, and there is no way to take them back. Although the words have been uttered and the sound of the voice has ceased to exist, their impact still lives on. Hence, the only thing I can do is to go to the person and apologize, isn't that right?" |
| ~ The Path to Tranquility, May 12, 14th Dalai Lama ~ |
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| Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. |
| ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. Democratic politician, president. Speech, July 2, 1932. repeated in his first inaugural address, March 4, 1933. The expression has numerous precedents, including the Duke of Wellington, Montaigne and the Bible, and was used by Sir Winston Churchill during World War II. ~ |
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| That author who draws a character, even though to common view incongruous in its parts, as the flying-squirrel, and, at different periods, as much at variance with itself as the caterpillar is with the butterfly into which it changes, may yet, in so doing, be not false but faithful to facts. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. The Confidence-Man (1857), ch. 14, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 10, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1984). ~ |
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| Thy modesty 's a candle to thy merit. |
| ~ Henry Fielding, Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 3. ~ |
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| What song the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women. |
| ~ Sir Thomas Browne, Dedication to Urn-Burial. Chap. v. ~ |
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| "Pooh," he said, "where did you find that pole?" Pooh looked at the pole in his hands. "I just found it," he said. "I thought it ought to be useful. I just picked it up." "Pooh," said Christopher Robin solemnly, "the Expedition is over. You have found the North Pole!" |
| ~ -- Pooh finds the North Pole _Winnie-the-Pooh_, p. 113 ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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