Common sense isn't.
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| Whoever is not in the possession of leisure can hardly be said to possess independence. They talk of the dignity of work. Bosh. True work is the necessity of poor humanity’s earthly condition. The dignity is in leisure. Besides, 99 hundredths of all the work done in the world is either foolish and unnecessary, or harmful and wicked. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. letter, Sept. 5, 1877, to his cousin, Catherine Gansevoort Lansing. Correspondence, vol. 14, The Writings of Herman Melville, ed. Lynn Horth (1993). Melville was working in the customs service. ~ |
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| What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same. |
| ~ Robert Browning, A Death in the Desert. ~ |
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| I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Mardi (1849), ch. 175, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 3, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1970). Spoken by Babbalanja, the philosopher. ~ |
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| you might be a physics major... ...if the "fun" center of your brain has deteriorated from lack of use. |
| ~ physics humor ~ |
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| Great God! I 'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn, So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea, Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. |
| ~ William Wordsworth, Miscellaneous Sonnets. Part i. xxxiii. ~ |
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| And, like another Helen, fir'd another Troy. |
| ~ John Dryden, Alexander's Feast. Line 154. ~ |
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| Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them. |
| ~ Euripides, Alcestis. 669. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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