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"Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant."
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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."
"Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections."
"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."
"The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine."
"The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense."
"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."
"Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting."
"If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is."
"No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails."
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"The man who thinks his wife his baby his house his horse his dog and himself severely unequalled is almost sure to be a good-humored person."
"If I had a formula for bypassing trouble I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it."
"The longing for certainty ... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion."
"Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?"
"Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel."
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