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Common sense is not so common.
[Fr., Le sens commun n'est pas si common.]
- Voltaire read more
Common sense is not so common.
[Fr., Le sens commun n'est pas si common.]
- Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),
Sensible people find nothing useless.
[Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
Sensible people find nothing useless.
[Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense
Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense
Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
Huzzaed out of my seven senses.
Huzzaed out of my seven senses.
Be sober, and to doubt prepense,
These are the sinews of good sense.
Be sober, and to doubt prepense,
These are the sinews of good sense.
Whate'er in her Horizon doth appear,
She is one Orb of Sense, all Eye, all aiery Ear.
Whate'er in her Horizon doth appear,
She is one Orb of Sense, all Eye, all aiery Ear.
'Tis use alone that sanctifies expense
And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.
'Tis use alone that sanctifies expense
And splendor borrow all her rays from sense.
Between good sense and good taste there is the difference between
cause and effect.
[Fr., Entre le bon read more
Between good sense and good taste there is the difference between
cause and effect.
[Fr., Entre le bon sens et le bon gout il y a la difference de la
cause a son effet.]
If Poverty is the Mother of Crimes, want of Sense is the Father.
If Poverty is the Mother of Crimes, want of Sense is the Father.