Common sense isn't.
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| Look not too long in the face of the fire, O man! Never dream with thy hand on the helm! Turn not they back to the compass; accept the first hint of the hitching tiller; believe not the artificial fire, when its redness makes all things look ghastly. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Moby-Dick (1851), ch. 96, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 6, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1988). Spoken of the try-works at night. ~ |
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| Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen, Fallen from his high estate, And welt'ring in his blood; Deserted, at his utmost need, By those his former bounty fed, On the bare earth expos'd he lies, With not a friend to close his eyes. |
| ~ John Dryden, Alexander's Feast. Line 77. ~ |
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| What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste? |
| ~ John Milton, To Mr. Lawrence. ~ |
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| "Would you kindly tell me the meaning of the poem called `Jabberwocky'?" "Let's hear it," said Humpty Dumpty. "I can explain all the peoms that ever were invented---and a good many that haven't been invented just yet." |
| ~ Through the Looking-Glass Chapter vi ~ |
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| The women pardon'd all except her face. |
| ~ Lord Byron, Don Juan. Canto v. Stanza 113. ~ |
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| The most perfect soul, says Heraclitus, is a dry light, which flies out of the body as lightning breaks from a cloud. |
| ~ Plutarch, Life of Romulus. ~ |
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| I dressed him, and God healed him. |
| ~ The Journey to Turin, Ambroise Paré ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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