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"I'm a real common sense guy who caught a lot of good breaks and who has been very, very fortunate."

"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next."

"Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants."

"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."

"We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra."

"There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."

"Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done."

"Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense."

"Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not."
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"It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive."

"An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones."

"Himself an ugly man, insignificantof appearance, he prized very highly comeliness in others."

"I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ."

"It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour."

"It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it."
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