Common sense isn't.
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| To be a Prodigal's favourite,-then, worse truth, A Miser's pensioner,-behold our lot! |
| ~ William Wordsworth, The Small Celandine. ~ |
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| Standing navies, as well as standing armies, serve to keep alive the spirit of war even in the meek heart of peace. In its very embers and smoulderings, they nourish that fatal fire, and half-pay officers, as the priests of Mars, yet guard the temple, though no god be there. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. White-Jacket (1850), ch. 49, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 5, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1969). ~ |
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| It can be said of him, when he departed he took a Man's life with him. No sounder piece of British manhood was put together in that eighteenth century of Time. |
| ~ Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter Scott. London and Westminster Review, 1838. ~ |
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| All human history attests That happiness for man,-the hungry sinner!- Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. |
| ~ Lord Byron, Don Juan. Canto xiii. Stanza 99. ~ |
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| "The earth loveth the shower," and "the holy ether knoweth what love is." The Universe, too, loves to create whatsoever is destined to be made. |
| ~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations. x. 21. ~ |
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| My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. |
| ~ William Wordsworth, The Fountain. ~ |
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| The strong arm, my lord, is no argument, though it overcomes all logic. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Mardi (1849), ch. 104, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 3, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1970). Spoken by Babbalanja, the philosopher. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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