"Physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse—without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impossible."
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"Common sense is the enemy of Romance :P:P"
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"The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."
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"Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense."
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"Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated."
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"There is absolutely no common sense, it is common non-sense."
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"It is always singular, but encouraging, to meet with common sense in very old books, as the Heetopades of Veeshnoo Sarma; a playful wisdom which has eyes behind as well as before, and oversees itself. It asserts their health and independence of the experience of later times. This pledge of sanity cannot be spared in a book, that it sometimes pleasantly reflect upon itself."
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"Those people.... early stricken of God, intellectually - the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington... can always be depended on to take any reasonably good law and interpret the common sense all out of it."
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"In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness."
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"Men's prejudices rest upon their character for the time being and cannot be overcome, as being part and parcel of themselves. Neither evidence nor common sense nor reason has the slightest influence upon them."
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"Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven."
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"the art of becoming 'rich', in the common sense, is not absolutely nor finally the art of accumulating much money for ourselves, but also of contriving that our neighbour shall have less. In accurate terms, it is 'the art of establishing the maximum inequality in your own favour'."
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"Common sense is almost as omniscient as God."
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"I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense."
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"Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself"
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"If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their objects, make some compensation, and render them the admiration of mankind."
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"If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else."
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"The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just."
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"He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet."
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"English sense has toiled, but Hindoo wisdom never perspired."
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