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Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.: C. E. Stowe
Science is good furniture for one's upper chamber, if there is common sense below.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.: Peter De Vries
Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), The Bacchae, circa 407 B.C.
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Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.: Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944), "Nonsense Novels",1911
The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), "The True Believer", 1951
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 (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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