Common sense isn't.
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| The wretched souls of those who lived Without or praise or blame. |
| ~ Dante Alighieri, Hell. Canto iii. Line 34. ~ |
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| Chapter 26 : respect seniors 01 Do not sit down in the beerhouse, 02 in order to join one greater than You. 03 Be he a youth great through his office, 04 or be he an elder through birth. 05 Befriend a man of your own measure, 06 Re is helpful from afar. 07 If You see one greater than You outdoors, 08 walk behind him respectfully. 09 Give a hand to an elder sated with beer, 10 respect him as his children would. 11 The arm is not hurt by being bared. 12 The back is not broken by bending it. 13 A man does not lose by speaking sweetly, 14 nor does he gain if his speech is straw. 15 The pilot who sees from afar, 16 he will not wreck his boat. |
| ~ The Instruction of Amenemope, Akhim, Egypt, ~1100 BC ~ |
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| The only ugliness is that of the heart, seen through the face. And though beauty be obvious, the only loveliness is invisible. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Mardi (1849), ch. 30, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 3, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1970). ~ |
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| Fool, not to know that love endures no tie, And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury. |
| ~ John Dryden, Palamon and Arcite. Book ii. Line 758. ~ |
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| [W]e must remember that so long as war exists on earth there will be some danger that even the Nation that most ardently desires peace may be drawn into war. |
| ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. Ed. Samuel I. Rosenman, The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech at Chautauqua, New York, August 14, 1936, vol. 5, p. 292, New York, Random House (1938-1950). Edward M. Bennett, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Search for Security: American-Soviet Relations, 1933-1939, p. 79, Scholarly Resources, Inc. (1985). FDR wished to make Americans aware that no matter how much they wished to remain insulated from foreign entanglements and war that the decision might not be up to them. ~ |
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| All dripping in tangles green, Cast up by a lonely sea, |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. poet, novelist. The Tuft of Kelp (l. 1–2). . . Selected Poems of Herman Melville. Hennig Cohen, ed. (1991) Fordham University Press. ~ |
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| Or whispering with white lips, "The foe! They come! they come!" |
| ~ Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iii. Stanza 25. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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