Common sense isn't.
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| And upon all that are lovers of virtue, and dare trust in his Providence, and be quiet and go a-angling. |
| ~ Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler. Part i. Chap. 21. ~ |
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| A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature. |
| ~ LORD BRYCE.Owen Wister, Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship, p. 66 (1930). This remark was made during a conversation with Wister in London in 1921. ~ |
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| A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars,-as stars to thee appear Seen in the galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest Powder'd with stars. |
| ~ John Milton, Paradise Lost. Book vii. Line 577. ~ |
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| Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay. |
| ~ On writing style of columnist Dorothy Thompson, quoted by Vincent Sheean Dorothy and Red Houghton Mifflin 63 ~ |
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| Oh, men are jailers all; jailers of themselves; and in Opinions world ignorantly hold their noblest part a captive to their vilest. |
| ~ Herman Melville (18191891), U.S. author. Pierre (1852), bk. V, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 7, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1971). Spoken by Pierre. ~ |
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| A gentleman of Typee can bring up a numerous family of children and give them all a highly respectable cannibal education, with infinitely less toil and anxiety than he expends in the simple process of striking a light; whilst a poor European artisan, who through the instrumentality of a lucifer performs the same operation in one second, is put to his wits end to provide for his starving offspring that food which the children of a Polynesian father, without troubling their parent, pluck from the branches of every tree around them. |
| ~ Herman Melville (18191891), U.S. author. Typee (1846), ch. 14, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 1, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1968). ~ |
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| I think that God's got a sick sense of humor |
| ~ Depeche Mode, Blasphemous Rumours ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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