Common sense isn't.
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| The materials of action are variable, but the use we make of them should be constant. |
| ~ Epictetus, How Nobleness of Mind may be consistent with Prudence. Chap. v. ~ |
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| Books, gentlemen, are a species of men, and introduced to them you circulate in the “very best society” that this world can furnish, without the intolerable infliction of “dressing” to go into it. In your shabbiest coat and cosiest slippers you may socially chat even with the fastidious Earl of Chesterfield, and lounging under a tree enjoy the divinest intimacy with my late lord of Verulam. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. “A Thought on Book-Binding” (1850), 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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| Ha, ha, my ship! thou mightiest well be taken now for the sea- chariot of the sun. Ho, ho! all ye nations before my prow, I bring the sun to ye! Yoke on the further billows ... I drive the sea! |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Captain Ahab, in Moby Dick, ch. 124 (1851). ~ |
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| Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain. |
| ~ Schiller, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6. ~ |
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| If you couldn't afford good whiskey, he'd take you on trust for beer. |
| ~Gerald Brennan, Floruit, Shanahan's Ould Shebeen, 1899 ~ |
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| At my years, and with my disposition, or rather, constitution, one gets to care less and less for everything except downright good feeling. Life is so short, and so ridiculous and irrational (from a certain point of view) that one knows not what to make of it, unless—well, finish the sentence for yourself. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. letter, Mar. 31, 1877, to his brother-in-law, John C. Hoadley. Correspondence, vol. 14, The Writings of Herman Melville, ed. Lynn Horth (1993). ~ |
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| Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.. You may have noticed that the less I know about a subject, the more confidence I have, and the more new light I throw on it. |
| ~ (Mark Twain, 1835-1910) in How to Sell 75% of Your Freelance Writing, Gordon Burgett ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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