Common sense isn't.
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| A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience than the former his vows of allegiance to martial duty. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Billy Budd, Sailor (c. 1889), ch. 21, eds. Harrison Hayford and Merton M. Sealts, Jr. (1962). ~ |
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| In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee. |
| ~ Lord Byron, Stanzas to Augusta. ~ |
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| As ill-luck would have it. |
| ~ Cervantes, Don Quixote. Part i. Book i. Chap. ii. ~ |
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| When some were saying that if Cæsar should march against the city they could not see what forces there were to resist him, Pompey replied with a smile, bidding them be in no concern, "for whenever I stamp my foot in any part of Italy there will rise up forces enough in an instant, both horse and foot." |
| ~ Plutarch, Life of Pompey. ~ |
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| I told them once, I told them twice: They would not listen to advice. |
| ~ Through the Looking-Glass Chapter vi ~ |
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| A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it. |
| ~ (Samuel Johnson, 1709-84) in How to Sell 75% of Your Freelance Writing, Gordon Burgett ~ |
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| Overcome anger with good nature; overcome evil with goodness; overcome greed with giving, and overcome lies with the truth. |
| ~Anger ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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