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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
Opera
W. H. Auden

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.
Beauty
George Bancroft

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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.
Music
Thomas Carlyle

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The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
Arts and Artists
James Joyce

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We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.
Opinions
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face.
Solemnity
Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
Opera
H. L. Mencken

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To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.
Conformity
Emily Post

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A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
Adversity
Saadi

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To be scared is sensible, to be comfortable is suicidal.
Comfort
Source Unknown

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In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.
Arts and Artists
Oscar Wilde

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People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.
Love
Douglas Yates

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun