Common sense isn't.
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| To anybody who can hold the Present at its worth without being inappreciative of the Past, it may be forgiven, if to such an one the solitary old hulk at Portsmouth, Nelson’s Victory, seems to float there, not alone as the decaying monument of a fame incorruptible, but also as a poetic approach, softened by its picturesqueness, to the Monitors and yet mightier hulls of the European ironclads. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Billy Budd, Sailor (c. 1889), ch. 4, eds. Harrison Hayford and Merton M. Sealts, Jr. (1962). ~ |
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| They who drink beer will think beer. |
| ~Washington Irving and William Warburton (1698-1779) ~ |
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| So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar But bind him to his native mountains more. |
| ~ Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller. Line 217. ~ |
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| These are thy glorious works, Parent of good! |
| ~ John Milton, Paradise Lost. Book v. Line 153. ~ |
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| There are no ordinary cats. |
| ~Colette ~ |
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| A bad beginning makes a bad ending. |
| ~ Euripides, Ĉolus. Frag. 32. ~ |
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| He said that in his whole life he most repented of three things: one was that he had trusted a secret to a woman; another, that he went by water when he might have gone by land; the third, that he had remained one whole day without doing any business of moment. |
| ~ Plutarch, Life of Marcus Cato. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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