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"No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails."
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"Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited."
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"Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes."
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"For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam's front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with nothing but a bit of faded muslin and a limp cravat? What is Creation without common sense, but a scandalous thing without form or function, like a matron with half a dozen unattached daughters?And God looked upon the Creation in all its delightful multiplicity, and saw that, all in all, it was quite Amiable."
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"It defies all common sense to send that roughneck ward politician back to the White House."
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"No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails."
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"Common sense solutions to lowering your gasoline bills can go far. Carpooling, taking fewer or shorter road trips, and ensuring that your tires are fully inflated can all help stop the pinch at the pump."
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"Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses."
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"The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens."
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"What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense."
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"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."
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"No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails."
Commonsense


"The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself."
Boredom


"There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward."
Pleasure


"The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt."
Life


"The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed."
Family


"The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech."
Fortune


"Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute."
Comedy


"To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph."
Duty


"I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward."
Life


"There is always time for failure."
Time
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