Common sense isn't.
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| Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. |
| ~John Wooden ~ |
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| Let us waive that agitated national topic, as to whether such multitudes of foreign poor should be landed on our American shores; let us waive it, with the one only thought, that if they can get here, they have God’s right to come. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Redburn (1849), ch. 58, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 4, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1969). ~ |
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| That mighty orb of song, The divine Milton. |
| ~ William Wordsworth, The Excursion.Book i. ~ |
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| So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap. |
| ~ John Milton, Paradise Lost. Book xi. Line 535. ~ |
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| I can see that figure now—pallidly neat, pitiably respectable, incurably forlorn! It was Bartleby. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. “Bartleby” (1853), The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces 1839-1860, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 9, eds. Harrison Hayford, Alma A. MacDougall, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). Spoken by the lawyer-narrator. ~ |
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| On Opulence: The difference between the great house with twenty to fifty guest rooms, all numbered like the rooms in a hotel, and the house of ordinary good size with from four to six guest rooms, or the farmhouse or small cottage which has but one "best" spare chamber, with perhaps a "man's room" on the ground floor, is much the same as the difference between the elaborate wedding and the simplest one merely of degree and not of kind. |
| ~ Emily Post, Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home, Chap. XXV¶1, 1922 ~ |
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| All objects look well through an arch. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Mardi (1849), ch. 67, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 3, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1970). ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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