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"Have common sense and stick to the point."
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"The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties."
Trouble
"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."
Men
"We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person."
Love
"The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind."
Success
"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."
Habit
"Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less."
People
"When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right."
People
"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered."
Day
"The crown of literature is poetry."
Poetry
"What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature."
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"Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not."
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Personal Development
"We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra."
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Personal Development
"Have common sense and stick to the point."
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Personal Development
"Common sense steps in here and says: Separate the parts you want to be mobile from the parts you want to be inert. You have seen the result, and I know many have the skill to apply it."
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Personal Development
"I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate."
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Personal Development
"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next."
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Personal Development
"Common sense often makes good law."
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Personal Development
"Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants."
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Personal Development
"There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."
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Personal Development
"But if it not be true, the myth itself requires to be explained, and every principle of philosophy and common sense demand that the explanation be sought, not in arbitrary allegorical categories, but in the actual facts of ritual or religious custom to which the myth attaches."
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Personal Development
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