Common sense isn't.
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| With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light. |
| ~ John Milton, Comus. Line 340. ~ |
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| I can see that figure now—pallidly neat, pitiably respectable, incurably forlorn! It was Bartleby. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. “Bartleby” (1853), The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces 1839-1860, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 9, eds. Harrison Hayford, Alma A. MacDougall, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). Spoken by the lawyer-narrator. ~ |
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| Farewell! a word that must be, and hath been,- A sound which makes us linger; yet-farewell! |
| ~ Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 186. ~ |
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| For freedom's battle, once begun, Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft, is ever won. |
| ~ Lord Byron, The Giaour. Line 123. ~ |
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| That is a true proverb which is wont to be commonly quoted, that "all had rather it were well for themselves than for another." |
| ~ Terence, Andria. Act ii. Sc. 5, 15. (426.) ~ |
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| Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will; Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still! |
| ~ William Wordsworth, Earth has not anything to show more fair. ~ |
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| “Ego non baptizo te in nomine patris, sed in nomine diaboli!” deliriously howled Ahab, as the malignant iron scorchingly devoured the baptismal blood. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Moby-Dick (1851), The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 6, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1988). Ahab to his harpoon (”I baptize thee, not in the name of the father, but in the name of the devil.” ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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