Common sense isn't.
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| "Not conversing," said Eeyore. "Not first one and then the other. You said `Hallo' and Flashed Past. I saw your tail a hundred yards up the hill as I was meditating my reply. I _had_ thought of saying `What?' --- but of, [sic] course, it was then too late." "Well, I was in a hurry." "No Give and Take," Eeyore went on. "No Exchange of Thought. `_Hallo --- What_' --- I mean, it gets you nowhere, particularly if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation." |
| ~ -- Eeyore complains to Rabbit _The House at Pooh Corner_, p. 147 ~ |
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| [T]he wise man should always follow the roads that have been trodden by the great, and imitate those who have most excelled, so that if he cannot reach their perfection, he may at least acquire something of its savour. |
| ~ -VI. Niccolo Machiavelli ~ |
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| The sigh that rends thy constant heart Shall break thy Edwin's too. |
| ~ Oliver Goldsmith, The Hermit. Chap. viii. Stanza 33. ~ |
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| And with that she began nursing her child again, singing a sort of lullaby to it as she did so, and giving it a violent shake at the end of every line:- |
| ~ "Speak roughly to your little boy, And beat him when he sneezes: He only does it to annoy, Because he knows it teases." -- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Chapter vi ~ |
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| Better to sink in boundless deeps, than float on vulgar shoals; and give me, ye gods, an utter wreck, if wreck I do. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Mardi (1849), ch. 169, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 3, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1970). ~ |
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| Come home to men's business and bosoms. |
| ~ Francis Bacon, Dedication to the Essays, Edition 1625. ~ |
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| Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. |
| ~ (Francis Bacon, 1625) in How to Sell 75% of Your Freelance Writing, Gordon Burgett ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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