Common sense isn't.
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| They were in the jelly of youth. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. White-Jacket (1850), ch. 83, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 5, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1969). Referring to adolescent boys. ~ |
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| Misled by fancy's meteor ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven. |
| ~ Robert Burns, The Vision. ~ |
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| Where music dwells Lingering and wandering on as loth to die, Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality. |
| ~ William Wordsworth, Ecclesiastical Sonnets. Part iii. xliii.Inside of King's Chapel, Cambridge. ~ |
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| It may often happen, as experience proves, that erroneous constructions, not anticipated, may not be sufficiently guarded against in the language used . . . |
| ~ Letter to Edward Everett, August, 1830 (James Madison, 1865, IV, page 104) ~ |
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| But hushed be every thought that springs From out the bitterness of things. |
| ~ William Wordsworth, Elegiac Stanzas. Addressed to Sir G. H. B. ~ |
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| Jove strikes the Titans down Not when they set about their mountain-piling But when another rock would crown the work. |
| ~ Robert Browning, Paracelsus. Part iv. ~ |
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| "What sort of insects do you rejoice in, where _you_ come from?" the Gnat inquired. "I don't _rejoice_ in insects at all," Alice explained, "because I'm rather afraid of them---at least the large kinds. But I can tell you the names of some of them." "Of course they answer to their names?" the Gnat remarked carelessly. "I never knew them do it." "What's the use of their having names," the Gnat said, "if they won't answer to them?" "No use to _them_," said Alice; "but it's useful to the people that name them, I suppose..." |
| ~ Through the Looking-Glass Chapter iii ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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