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The Secret Agent

by Joseph Conrad

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May 09, 2018 12:18AM

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“On Common Sense:
Common sense isn't.
Corollary: Uncommon sense is.”
― Kalifer Deil

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“Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

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“I was only the more anxious to make Jerusalem a city like the others, where several races and several beliefs could live in peace; but I was wrong to forget that in any combat between fanaticism and common sense the latter has rarely the upper hand.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

tags: common-sense, fanaticism, jerusalem

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