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My success was not based so much on any great
intelligence but on great common sense. |
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Helen Gurley Brown |
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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the
clergy than reason and common sense. |
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Voltaire |
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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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Oliver Wendell
Holmes |
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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should
be occasional, and common sense continual. |
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Robertson Davies |
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Science is organized common sense where many a
beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. |
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Thomas Huxley |
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In any war, the first casualty is common sense,
and the second is free and open discussion. |
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James Reston |
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Common sense often makes good law. |
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William O. Douglas |
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Common sense is as rare as genius. |
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Ralph Waldo
Emerson |
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Childhood smells of perfume and brownies. |
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David Leavitt |
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Common sense is genius in homespun. |
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Alfred North
Whitehead |
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Common sense is the wick of the candle. |
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Ralph Waldo
Emerson |
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Logic is one thing and common sense another. |
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Elbert Hubbard |
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The best prophet is common sense, our native
wit. |
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Euripides |
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Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse
one. |
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Elbert Hubbard |
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The biggest shortage of all is the shortage of
common sense. |
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Unknown |
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What a grand thing it is to be clever and have
common sense. |
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Terence |
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As perfume to the flower, so is kindness to
speech. |
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Katherine Francke |
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If a man has common sense, he has all the sense
there is. |
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Sam Rayburn |
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Common sense is in spite of, not the result of,
education. |
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Victor Hugo |
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Common Sense is instinct, and enough of it is
genius. |
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Henry Wheeler Shaw |
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All truth, in the long run, is only common sense
clarified. |
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Thomas Henry
Huxley |
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Learning is the art of knowing how to use common
sense to advantage. |
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Josh Billings |
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No perfumes, but very fine linen, plenty of it,
and country washing. |
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Beau' Brummell |
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Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are
scarcely conscious of it. |
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Christina of
Sweden |
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The five senses are horse sense, innocence,
common sense, concupiscence, and nonsense. |
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Unknown |
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The mysterious East, perfumed like a flower,
silent like death, dark like a grave. |
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Joseph Conrad |
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Everybody gets so much information all day long
that they lose their common sense. |
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Gertrude Stein |
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The voice of the Lord is the voice of common
sense, which is shared by all that is. |
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Samuel Butler |
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Common sense and nature will do a lot to make
the pilgrimage of life not too difficult. |
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W. Somerset
Maugham |
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Conservation is the application of common sense
to the common problems for the common good. |
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Gifford Pinchot |
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Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on
someone without getting some on yourself. |
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Ralph Waldo
Emerson |
