Common sense isn't.
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| This world nys but a thurghfare ful of wo, And we been pilgrymes, passynge to and fro; Deeth is an ende of every worldly soore. |
| ~ Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400), British poet. ~ |
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| One who holds tightly to self-discipline and clears away all inner pollution, one endowed with both discipline and truth, is worthy of the saffron robes. |
| ~Twin Verses ~ |
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| And truant husband should return, and say, "My dear, I was the first who came away." |
| ~ Lord Byron, Don Juan. Canto i. Stanza 141. ~ |
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| flight from tyranny does not of itself insure a safe asylum, far less a happy home. |
| ~ Herman Melville (18191891), U.S. author. The Encantadas (1854), sketch tenth, 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). ~ |
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| When the inhabitants of some sequestered island first descry the big canoe of the European rolling through the blue waters towards their shores, they rush down to the beach in crowds, and with open arms stand ready to embrace the strangers. Fatal embrace! They fold to their bosoms the vipers whose sting is destined to poison all their joys; and the instinctive feeling of love within their breasts is soon converted into the bitterest hate. |
| ~ Herman Melville (18191891), U.S. author. Typee (1846), ch. 4, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 1, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1968). ~ |
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| Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded That all the Apostles would have done as they did. |
| ~ Lord Byron, Don Juan. Canto i. Stanza 83. ~ |
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| The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman. |
| ~ (Boris Pasternak, 1959) in How to Sell 75% of Your Freelance Writing, Gordon Burgett ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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