Common sense isn't.
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| Whether the Constitution, as it has divided the powers of Government between the States in their separate and in their united capacities, tends to an oppressive aggrandizement of the General Government, or to an anarchical independence of the State Governments, is a problem which time alone can absolutely determine. |
| ~ Letter to John G. Jackson, December 27, 1821 (James Madison, 1865, III, pages 243-247) ~ |
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| The ancients of the ideal description, instead of trying to turn their impracticable chimeras, as does the modern dreamer, into social and political prodigies, deposited them in great works of art, which still live while states and constitutions have perished, bequeathing to posterity not shameful defects but triumphant successes. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. “Statues of Rome” (1857-58), The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces 1839-1860, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 9, eds. Harrison Hayford, Alma A. MacDougall, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). A lecture. ~ |
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| Be mischievous, it feels good. |
| ~ Dove Dark Chocolate, Promises Message ~ |
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| In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it. |
| ~ Epictetus, That Everything is to be undertaken with Circumspection. Chap. xv. ~ |
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| A collie has the brain of a man, and the ways of a woman. |
| ~Scottish Proverb ~ |
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| For contemplation he and valour form'd, For softness she and sweet attractive grace; He for God only, she for God in him. His fair large front and eye sublime declar'd Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad. |
| ~ John Milton, Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 297. ~ |
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| The blind old man of Scio's rocky isle. |
| ~ Lord Byron, The Bride of Abydos. Canto i. Canto ii. Stanza 2. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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