Common sense isn't.
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| I seem, in most of these verses, to have but placed a harp in a window, and noted the contrasted airs which wayward winds have played upon the strings. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Prefatory words. “Battle-Pieces” (1866), p. 446, Collected Poems of Herman Melville, ed. Howard P. Vincent (1947). Describing the composition of his Civil War poetry. ~ |
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| When Hermodotus in his poems described Antigonus as the son of Helios, "My valet-de-chambre," said he, "is not aware of this." |
| ~ Plutarch, Of Isis and Osiris. ~ |
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| As Cæsar was at supper the discourse was of death,-which sort was the best. "That," said he, "which is unexpected." |
| ~ Plutarch, Roman Apophthegms. Cæsar. ~ |
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| A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay,- A cap by night, a stocking all the day. |
| ~ Oliver Goldsmith, Description of an Author's Bed-chamber. ~ |
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| Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind. |
| ~ Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv. Stanza 98.; George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron. (1788-1824) ~ |
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| Taught by that Power that pities me, I learn to pity them. |
| ~ Oliver Goldsmith, The Hermit. Chap. viii. Stanza 6. ~ |
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| I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. |
| ~Rita Rudner ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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