Common sense isn't.
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| I felt a melting in me. No more my splintered heart and maddened hand were turned against the wolfish world. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Moby-Dick (1851), ch. 10, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 6, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1988). Concerns the effect of Queequeg on Ishmael. ~ |
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| The Navy is the asylum for the perverse, the home of the unfortunate. Here the sons of adversity meet the children of calamity, and here the children of calamity meet the offspring of sin. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. White-Jacket (1850), ch. 18, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 5, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1969). ~ |
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| If you couldn't afford good whiskey, he'd take you on trust for beer. |
| ~Gerald Brennan, Floruit, Shanahan's Ould Shebeen, 1899 ~ |
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| Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrify'd, and like a comet burn'd That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war. |
| ~ John Milton, Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 707. ~ |
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| all mankind, not excluding Americans, are sinners—miserable sinners, as even no few Bostonians themselves nowadays contritely respond in the liturgy. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. “To Major John Gentian, Dean of the Burgundy Club” (posthumous), p. 358, Billy Budd and Other Prose Pieces, The Works of Herman Melville, vol. 13, ed. Raymond M. Weaver (1924). ~ |
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| After a long munching noise he said: "Ee-ers o i a-ors." And when Pooh and Piglet said "What?" he said "Skoos ee," and went outside for a moment. When he came back he said firmly: "Tiggers don't like haycorns." "But you said they liked everything except honey," said Pooh. "Everything except honey _and_ haycorns," explained Tigger. |
| ~ -- Tigger tries haycorns _The House at Pooh Corner_, p. 24 ~ |
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| Man's way to god is with beer in the hand. |
| ~Koffyar tribe saying ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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