Common sense isn't.
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| You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength. |
| ~ Henry Adams ~ |
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| One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title-page, another works away the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index. |
| ~ Oliver Goldsmith, The Bee. No. 1, Oct. 6, 1759. ~ |
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| In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Mardi (1849), ch. 185, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 3, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1970). Spoken by Mohi, the historian. ~ |
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| Negative actions have the potential to increase, whereas positive actions can be destroyed by many adverse circumstances. |
| ~ The Path to Tranquility, October 16, 14th Dalai Lama ~ |
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| It is up with you; all is over; you are ruined. |
| ~ Terence, Eunuchus. Act i. Sc. 1, 9. (54.) ~ |
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| You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin. |
| ~ Richard Sheridan, School for Scandal. Act i. Sc. 1. ~ |
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| Eat not thy heart; which forbids to afflict our souls, and waste them with vexatious cares. |
| ~ Plutarch, Of the Training of Children. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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