Common sense isn't.
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| When he put it like this, you saw how it was, and you aimed very carefully at the balloon, and fired. "_Ow_!" said Pooh. "Did I miss?" you asked. "You didn't exactly _miss_," said Pooh, "but you missed the _balloon_." |
| ~ -- Christopher Robin rescues Pooh _Winnie-the-Pooh_, p. 16 ~ |
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| Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day. |
| ~ Benjamin Franklin, Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757. ~ |
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| There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gather'd then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men. A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell. |
| ~ Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iii. Stanza 21. ~ |
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| When Darius offered him ten thousand talents, and to divide Asia equally with him, "I would accept it," said Parmenio, "were I Alexander." "And so truly would I," said Alexander, "if I were Parmenio." But he answered Darius that the earth could not bear two suns, nor Asia two kings. |
| ~ Plutarch, Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders. 42 Alexander. ~ |
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| Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain. |
| ~ Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village. Line 1. ~ |
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| Writing has laws of perspective, of night and shade, just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself. |
| ~ (Truman Capote, 1958) in How to Sell 75% of Your Freelance Writing, Gordon Burgett ~ |
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| Never joke at funerals, or during business transactions. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Israel Potter (1855), ch. 7, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 8, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1982). Spoken by a fictional Benjamin Franklin. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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