Common sense isn't.
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| Much of a man’s character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Moby-Dick (1851), ch. 80, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 6, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1988). ~ |
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| Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–91), U.S. author. Moby Dick, ch. 29 (1851). ~ |
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| There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. |
| ~Douglas Everett ~ |
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| As we all know, cats now rule the world. |
| ~John R.F. Breen ~ |
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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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| This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs. |
| ~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations. ii. 2. ~ |
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| It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends. |
| ~ Terence, Adelphoe. Act v. Sc. 3, 18. (803.) ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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