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  • What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense. - Terence
  • Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. - Oscar Wilde
  • In the war for individual rights, common sense becomes the first and major casualty. - unknown
  • Nothing ventured, nothing gained -- but if everything is ventured, and still nothing gained, give up and venture elsewhere. - Peter Wastholm
  • Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race. - Giambattista Vico
  • The biggest shortage of all is the shortage of common sense. - unknown
  • Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious. - Alfred North Whitehead
  • Good sense is the master of human life. - unknown
  • Common sense is what tells us the Earth is flat and the Sun goes around it. - unknown
  • Common sense is seeing things as they are, and doing things as they should be done. - unknown
  • Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring. - Henry David Thoreau
  • Everybody gets so much common information all day long that they lose their common sense. - Gertrude Stein
  • A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning. - unknown
  • Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature. - Edward G Bulwer Lytton
  • One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it. - Persian Proverb
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