Common sense isn't.
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| Small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever completing anything. This whole book is but a draught—nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience! |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Moby-Dick (1851), ch. 32, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 6, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1988). Spoken by the narrator, Ishmael. ~ |
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| I think that both here and in England there are two schools of thought—those who would be altruistic in regard to the Germans, hoping that by loving kindness to make them Christian again—and those who would adopt a much tougher attitude. Most decidedly I belong to the latter school, for though I am not blood-thirsty, I want the Germans to know that this time at least they have definitely lost the war. |
| ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. letter, Aug. 26, 1944, to Queen Wilhelmina of Holland. The Roosevelt Letters, vol. 3, p. 509, ed. Elliott Roosevelt, George G. Harrup & Co., Ltd. (1952). Roosevelt was among those who believed that Hitler had risen to power partly on the surge of conviction in Germany that they had not really lost the war in 1918, but rather that the military had been sold down the river by cowardly democratic politicians. He was determined to make sure that there was no possible misperception about whether or not the German military were defeated in the Second World War. ~ |
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| I know Bacchus, the god of wine, for he smells of nectar; but all I know of the god of beer is that he smells of the billy goat. |
| ~Emperor Julian the Apostate, 361 A.D. ~ |
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| Wine made from barley ... was very strong, and of delicious flavor ... but the taste must be acquired. |
| ~Xenophon, 400 B.C. ~ |
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| "And how exactly like an egg he is!" she said aloud, standing with her hands ready to catch him, for she was every moment expecting him to fall. "It's _very_ provoking," Humpty Dumpty said after a long silence, looking away from Alice as he spoke, "to be called an egg,---_very_!" |
| ~ Through the Looking-Glass Chapter vi ~ |
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| Just as one makes many garlands from a heap of flowers, those who are certain of death perform many virtuous actions. |
| ~Flowers ~ |
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| While his off-heel, insidiously aside, Provokes the caper which he seems to chide. |
| ~ Richard Sheridan, Pizarro. The Prologue. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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