Common sense isn't.
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| I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de’ Medici placed beside a milliner’s doll. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Typee (1846), ch. 22, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 1, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1968). On the occasion of a Polynesian holiday. ~ |
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| There is something in the breast of almost every man, which at bottom takes offense at the attentions of any other man offered to a woman, the hope of whose nuptial love he himself may have discarded. Fain would a man selfishly appropriate all the hearts which have ever in any way confessed themselves his. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Pierre (1852), bk. XXI, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 7, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1971). ~ |
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| To be a born American citizen seems a guarantee against pauperism; and this, perhaps, springs from the virtue of a vote. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Redburn (1849), ch. 41, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 4, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1969). ~ |
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| If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him. |
| ~ Voltaire, Epître à l'Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs. cxi. ~ |
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| It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose. |
| ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. Democratic politician, president. Press conference, July 23, 1937. ~ |
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| Now obey thy cherished secret wish, Embrace thy friends-leave all in order; To port and hawser's tie no more returning, Depart upon thy endless cruise, old Sailor! |
| ~ Walt Whitman, Now Finalè to the Shore. (To Tennyson). ~ |
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| Socrates… Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men. |
| ~ John Milton, Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line 274. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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