"Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom."
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors two, facility to acquirers and three, hope to all.“
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Poetry: the best words in the best order."
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"That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith."
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"Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole."
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"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment."
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"Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing."
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"What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long."
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"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
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