Common sense isn't.
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| And her face so fair Stirr'd with her dream, as rose-leaves with the air. |
| ~ Lord Byron, Don Juan. Canto iv. Stanza 29. ~ |
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| The timely dew of sleep. |
| ~ John Milton, Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 614. ~ |
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| You can’t make a souffle rise twice. |
| ~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884–1980), U.S. socialite; daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt. As quoted in A Dictionary of Contemporary American History, by Stanley Hochman and Eleanor Hochman (1993). Said in 1948 on the defeat of Republican Thomas H. Dewey in that year’s Presidential election, by incumbent President Harry S. Truman. In 1944, Dewey had been defeated by Longworth’s kinsman, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. ~ |
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| Ye elms that wave on Malvern Hill In prime of morn and May, Recall ye how McClellan’s men Here stood at bay? |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. poet, novelist. Malvern Hill (l. 1–4). . . Selected Poems of Herman Melville. Hennig Cohen, ed. (1991) Fordham University Press. ~ |
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| Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. |
| ~ (Logan Pearsall Smith, 1931) in How to Sell 75% of Your Freelance Writing, Gordon Burgett ~ |
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| Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control. |
| ~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations. ix. 7. ~ |
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| Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy. |
| ~ Cervantes, Don Quixote. Part i. Book. iii. Chap. i. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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