Common sense isn't.
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| Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb. |
| ~ Francis Bacon, Historia Vitæ et Mortis; Sylva Sylvarum, Cent. i. Exper. 100. ~ |
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| It is a difficult thing for a man to resist the natural necessity of mortal passions. |
| ~ Plutarch, Of those whom God is slow to punish. ~ |
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| Adrift dissolving, bound for death; Though lumpish thou, a lumbering one— A lumbering lubbard loitering slow, Impingers rue thee and go down, Sounding thy precipice below, Nor stir the slimy slug that sprawls Along thy dead indifference of walls. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. poet, novelist. The Berg (l. 31–37). . . Selected Poems of Herman Melville. Hennig Cohen, ed. (1991) Fordham University Press. ~ |
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| O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer. |
| ~ The Myth of Sisyphus, Return to Tipasa, Albert Camus (1913 - 1960) ~ |
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| Comparisons are odious. |
| ~ Christopher Marlowe, Lust's Dominion. Act iii. Sc. 4. ~ |
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| I am as sober as a judge. |
| ~ Henry Fielding, Don Quixote in England. Act iii. Sc. 14. ~ |
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| There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things. |
| ~ Cervantes, Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxv. ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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