Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trustin...
Common sense is a tool that isn't in everyone's shed.
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I would rather write a book without a title if my true friend chooses to live in a million dollar home in London and acts foreign.
The fifth sense is "common sense"- either you have it or you don't.
The past is behind us unless we fail to learn from it.
Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
You could buy a suckling pig with it, if you want to. You could raise it, and it would raise a litter of pigs, worth four, five dollars apiece. Or you can trade that half-dollar for lemonade, and drin...
Intelligence and common sense, what makes a person a real genius.
It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.
Continuous denial of rational arguments represents a contempt of common sense.
It takes centuries for sense to become common
So muchhuman cruelty is simplyincidental is simplybrainless. Simply nocommon sense. You couldtake the entirety of thecommon sense of humansand put it in the palm ofyour hand and still haveroom for you...
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way...
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
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.
Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
With age comes common sense and wisdom.
Common sense is not so common.
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