Common sense isn't.
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| For many, as Cranton tells us, and those very wise men, not now but long ago, have deplored the condition of human nature, esteeming life a punishment, and to be born a man the highest pitch of calamity; this, Aristotle tells us, Silenus declared when he was brought captive to Midas. |
| ~ Plutarch, Consolation to Apollonius. ~ |
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| Their fatal hands No second stroke intend. |
| ~ John Milton, Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 712. ~ |
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| Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality. |
| ~ Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962), U.S. columnist, lecturer. “My Day” (April 24, 1945). Syndicated newspaper column. ~ |
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| Surrounded as we are by the wants and woes of our fellow-men, and yet given to follow our own pleasures, regardless of their pains, are we not like people sitting up with a corpse, and making merry in the house of the dead? |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Redburn (1849), ch. 37, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 4, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1969). ~ |
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| The beautiful eyes of my cash-box. |
| ~ Moliere, L'Avare. Act v. Sc. 3. ~ |
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| Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge. |
| ~Eleanor Farjeon ~ |
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| That soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth. |
| ~ Lord Byron, Beppo. Stanza 44. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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