Common sense isn't.
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| Of all mortals, some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Moby-Dick (1851), ch. 110, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 6, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1988). ~ |
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| Most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked about the house with a saintly expression… |
| ~Beverly Nichols ~ |
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| When one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals. What would you have, O man? |
| ~ Epictetus, Discourses. Chap. xxi. ~ |
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| Themistocles said that he certainly could not make use of any stringed instrument; could only, were a small and obscure city put into his hands, make it great and glorious. |
| ~ Plutarch, Life of Themistocles. ~ |
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| Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings. |
| ~ John Milton, Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 699. ~ |
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| It may often happen, as experience proves, that erroneous constructions, not anticipated, may not be sufficiently guarded against in the language used . . . |
| ~ Letter to Edward Everett, August, 1830 (James Madison, 1865, IV, page 104) ~ |
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| Illustrious predecessor. |
| ~ Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontent. Vol. i. p. 456. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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