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- I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.
- Somerset Maugham
- Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
- Don Herold
- Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
- Max Beerbohm (1872 - 1956)
- A fine dress on a homely maiden is never enough of a distraction. It can convey a sense of wealth and its accompanying attractions, but it can never truly compensate for a plain face.
- Laura Moncur (1969 - ), The Secret Heart of Charlotte Lucas, 2014
- In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished--a word that for them has no sense--but abandoned; and this abandonment, whether to the flames or to the public (and which is the result of weariness or an obligation to deliver) is a kind of an accident to them, like the breaking off of a reflection, which fatigue, irritation, or something similar has made worthless.
- Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
- Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love.
- Anonymous
- Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.
- Unknown
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
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