Common sense isn't.
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| He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat. |
| ~ Lord Byron, Don Juan. Canto iii. Stanza 41. ~ |
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| Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt. |
| ~ Oliver Goldsmith, The Haunch of Venison. ~ |
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| Scorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart. |
| ~ William Wordsworth, Scorn not the Sonnet. ~ |
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| Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing. |
| ~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations. iv. 4. ~ |
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| I don’t know the man I admire more than [Charles Evans] Hughes. If ever I have the chance I shall offer him the Chief Justiceship. |
| ~ William Howard Taft (1857–1930), U.S. president. Letter, Butt to his sister-in-law, Clara F. Butt, March 21, 1910. Archie Butt, Taft and Roosevelt: The Intimate Letters of Archie Butt, Military Aide, 1: 310, Doubleday, Doran & Company (1930). Taft’s comment to Butt after he had urged Hughes to seek reelection as governor of New York. ~ |
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| The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Mardi (1849), ch. 124, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 3, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1970). Babbalanja, the philosopher, reading from a book. ~ |
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| Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them. |
| ~ Epictetus, Concerning the Epicureans. Chap. xx. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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