Common sense isn't.
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| There were his young barbarians all at play; There was their Dacian mother: he, their sire, Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday! |
| ~ Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 141.; George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron. (1788-1824) ~ |
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| That great brow And the spirit-small hand propping it. |
| ~ Robert Browning, By the Fireside. xxiii. ~ |
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| A life of only a single day spent in meditation conjoined with wisdom is better than living a hundred years unbalanced and confused. |
| ~Thousands ~ |
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| Type of the wise who soar but never roam, True to the kindred points of heaven and home. |
| ~ William Wordsworth, To a Skylark. ~ |
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| Imagine my surprise, nay, my consternation, when without moving from his privacy, Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to.” |
| ~ 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). One of many instances in which Bartleby uses this phrase to refuse to work. ~ |
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| Do not keep company with pleasure; do not consort with pain. The absence of pleasure is misery, and so is the presence of pain. |
| ~Pleasure ~ |
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| Completely avoid all wrongdoing, just as a wealthy merchant with a few companions avoids a dangerous road, and just as those who love life avoid poison. |
| ~Evil ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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