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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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"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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"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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"What is 'common sense'? (It is that which is) Everywhere applicable, theoretically as well as practically!"
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"Common sense varies among the young, as among the old."
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"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."
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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."
God
"Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other."
Thought
"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."
Man
"Stupidity often saves a man from going mad."
Man
"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold."
Friendship
"The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer."
Love
"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?"
Home
"A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times."
Thought
"The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live."
Education
"A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time."
Time
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