The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle, and oversimplifying - as common sense sometimes impels us to do - can be hazardous to your health.
She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist - I helped her lace them up - but they had the effect of causing her to faint. Mom called it the vapors and said it was a sign of her high breeding and...
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In a world of common nonsense, our best defence is 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.
Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus...
There will come a time in every girl's life when she realizes that your ex-girlfriend wasn't crazy. Actually, she was right (about you).
Common sense comes not just from knowledge, but also from wisdom.
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Common sense is very uncommon. It is also shaped by your education.
Application of common sense is Intelligence
Everyone deserves what they choose to tolerate.
Retaining our capacity for reasonis common sense, but definite conclusions and beliefs keep us from seeing life as it really is at any given moment.
Common sense is a tool that isn't in everyone's shed.
Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.
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.
Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.
Lost: The common sense of an unconventional dreamer. If found, please return to Love The Stacks.
Your imagination is the vehicle to enlightenment.
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