"One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music."
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"Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]"
"Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them."
"A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself."
"Every sane and sensible and quiet thing we do is absolutely ignored by the press."
"She remembered, as every sensible person does, that you should never never shut yourself up in a wardrobe."
"Actually, I think it's quite sensible not to take yourself too seriously."
"Jane Austin was a complete and most sensible lady, but a very incomplete and rather insensible (not senseless) woman. If this is heresy, I cannot help it."
"If I do not do sensible things about investments I shall spend my old age in a workhouse, where nobody will understand my jokes."
"All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power."
"Sometimes I wish I were less sensible."
"It's a sensible rule that says before you get a mortgage it should be checked whether you can afford it."