Common sense isn't.
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| Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep! It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even. |
| ~ Cervantes, Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lxviii. ~ |
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| For as lack of adornment is said to become some women, so this subtle oration, though without embellishment, gives delight. |
| ~ Cicero, De Oratore. 78. ~ |
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| Being about to pitch his camp in a likely place, and hearing there was no hay to be had for the cattle, "What a life," said he, "is ours, since we must live according to the convenience of asses!" |
| ~ Plutarch, Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders. 37 Philip. ~ |
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| Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join'd the former two. |
| ~ John Dryden, Under Mr. Milton's Picture. ~ |
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| One great question underlies our experience, whether we think about it consciously or not: what is the purpose of life? From the moment of birth, every human being wants happiness and does not want suffering. Neither social conditioning nor education nor ideology affects this. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment. Therefore, it is important to discover what will bring about the greatest degree of happiness. |
| ~ The Path to Tranquility, September 2, 14th Dalai Lama ~ |
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| I take such men to be inspired. I fancy that this moment Shakespeare in heaven ranks with Gabriel Raphael and Michael. And if another Messiah ever comes twill be in Shakespeare’s person. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. letter, Feb. 24, 1849, to Evert A. Duyckinck. Correspondence, vol. 14, The Writings of Herman Melville, ed. Lynn Horth (1993). ~ |
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| The western spirit is, or will yet be (for no other is, or can be) the true American one. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Israel Potter (1855), ch. 22, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 8, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1982). ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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