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"No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails."
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"Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher."
"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."
"Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run."
"Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited."
"What is 'common sense'? (It is that which is) Everywhere applicable, theoretically as well as practically!"
"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness."
"The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine."
"Common sense varies among the young, as among the old."
"Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting."
"The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is."
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"The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed."
"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."
"I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print."
"All the flower children were as alike as a congress of accountants and about as interesting."
"The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech."
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