Common sense isn't.
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| Let no act be done at haphazard, nor otherwise than according to the finished rules that govern its kind. |
| ~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations. iv. 2. ~ |
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| There is no fire like desire, no provocation that can equal hate, no suffering like this heap of flesh, no happiness higher than peace. |
| ~Joy ~ |
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| Ungrateful Florence! Dante sleeps afar, Like Scipio, buried by the upbraiding shore. |
| ~ Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 57. ~ |
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| Are there any in the world whose modesty allows them to bear indignity like fine horses bear the touch of the whip? |
| ~Punishment ~ |
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| Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure,- Sighed to think I read a book, Only read, perhaps, by me. |
| ~ William Wordsworth, To the Small Celandine. ~ |
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| We are firm believers in the maxim that for all right judgment of any man or thing it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad. |
| ~ Thomas Carlyle, Goethe. Edinburgh Review, 1828. ~ |
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| The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly as necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else. |
| ~ THEODORE ROOSEVELT, “Lincoln and Free Speech,” The Great Adventure (vol. 19 of The Works of Theodore Roosevelt, national ed.), chapter 7, p. 289 (1926). ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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