Common sense isn't.
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| Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do ingloriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple: who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? |
| ~ John Milton, Areopagitica. ~ |
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| Our national debt after all is an internal debt owed not only by the Nation but to the Nation. If our children have to pay interest on it they will pay that interest to themselves. A reasonable internal debt will not impoverish our children or put the Nation into bankruptcy. |
| ~ President FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, address to the American Retail Federation, Washington, D.C., May 22, 1939.—The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1939, p. 351 (1941). ~ |
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| Oh, the roast beef of England, And old England's roast beef! |
| ~ Henry Fielding, The Grub Street Opera. Act iii. Sc. 2. ~ |
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| Next to his house was a piece of broken board which had: "TRESPASSERS W" on it. When Christopher Robin asked Piglet what it meant he said it was his grandfather's name, and had been in the family for a long time. Christopher Robin said you _couldn't_ be called Trespassers W, and Piglet said you could, because his grandfather was, and it was short for Trespassers Will, which was short for Trespassers William. |
| ~ -- A strange sort of name _Winnie-the-Pooh_, p. 30 ~ |
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| So Tigger came closer, and he leant over the back of Roo's chair, and suddenly he put out his tongue, and took one large golollop, and, with a sudden jump of surprise, Kanga said, "Oh!" and then clutched at the spoon again just as it was disappearing, and pulled it safely back out of Tigger's mouth. But the Extract of Malt had gone. |
| ~ -- "So _that's_ what Tiggers like!" _The House at Pooh Corner_, p. 34 ~ |
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| A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays And confident to-morrows. |
| ~ William Wordsworth, The Excursion.Book vii. ~ |
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| What worries me, especially, is that public opinion over here is patting itself on the back every morning and thanking God for the Atlantic Ocean (and the Pacific Ocean). We greatly underestimate the serious implications to our own future.... Things move with such terrific speed these days, that it is really essential to us to think in broader terms and, in effect, to warn the American people that they, too, should think of possible ultimate results in Europe and the Far East. |
| ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. letter, Dec. 14, 1939, to William Allen White. The Roosevelt Letters, vol. 3, p. 293, ed. Elliott Roosevelt, George G. Harrup & Co., Ltd. (1952). FDR wished White to take the lead in warning the public that the war in Europe and Asia was indeed some of their business, as the result would effect Americans in both their security and economic well-being. White was one of the founders of the organization promoting aid to the Allies as a means of defending America without actively entering the war. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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