Common sense isn't.
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| "I mean," she said, "that one can't help growing older." "_One_ can't, perhaps," said Humpty Dumpty; "but _two_ can. With proper assistance, you might have left off at seven." |
| ~ Through the Looking-Glass Chapter vi ~ |
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| The world is forever babbling of originality; but there never yet was an original man, in the sense intended by the world; the first man himself—who according to the Rabbins was also the first author—not being an original; the only original author being God. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Pierre (1852), bk. XVIII, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 7, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1971). ~ |
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| Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones. |
| ~ Cervantes, Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lv. ~ |
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| For many, as Cranton tells us, and those very wise men, not now but long ago, have deplored the condition of human nature, esteeming life a punishment, and to be born a man the highest pitch of calamity; this, Aristotle tells us, Silenus declared when he was brought captive to Midas. |
| ~ Plutarch, Consolation to Apollonius. ~ |
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| The general himself ought to be such a one as can at the same time see both forward and backward. |
| ~ Plutarch, Whether an Aged Man ought to meddle in State Affairs. ~ |
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| The mind which is wrongly guided does even greater harm than the harm inflicted by an enemy upon his foe. |
| ~Mind ~ |
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| All of the different religious faiths, despite their philosophical differences, have a similar objective. Every religion emphasizes human improvement, love, respect for others, sharing other people's suffering. On these lines every religion has more or less the same viewpoint and the same goal. |
| ~ The Path to Tranquility, January 8, 14th Dalai Lama ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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