Common sense isn't.
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| all mankind, not excluding Americans, are sinners—miserable sinners, as even no few Bostonians themselves nowadays contritely respond in the liturgy. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. “To Major John Gentian, Dean of the Burgundy Club” (posthumous), p. 358, Billy Budd and Other Prose Pieces, The Works of Herman Melville, vol. 13, ed. Raymond M. Weaver (1924). ~ |
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| That is a true proverb which is wont to be commonly quoted, that "all had rather it were well for themselves than for another." |
| ~ Terence, Andria. Act ii. Sc. 5, 15. (426.) ~ |
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| I see an America whose rivers and valleys and lakes, hills and streams and plains; the mountains over our land and nature’s wealth deep under the earth, are protected as the rightful heritage of all the people. |
| ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. FDR Speaks authorized edition of speeches, 1933-1945 (recordings of Franklin Roosevelt’s public addresses), side 8, Cleveland campaign speech (Nov. 2, 1940), ed. Henry Steele Commager, Introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt, Washington Records, Inc. (1960). ~ |
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| The ways of the gods are full of providence. |
| ~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations. ii. 3. ~ |
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| In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semihuman. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog. |
| ~Edward Hoagland ~ |
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| Biography, in its purer form, confined to the ended lives of the true and brave, may be held the fairest meed of human virtue—one given and received in entire disinterestedness—since neither can the biographer hope for acknowledgment from the subject, not the subject at all avail himself of the biographical distinction conferred. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Israel Potter (1855), dedication, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 8, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1982). ~ |
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| Read eek of Joseph, and there shall ye see Where dreames ben sometime - I say not all - Warning of thinges that shall after fall. |
| ~ Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400), British poet. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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