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“On Common Sense:
Common sense isn't.
Corollary: Uncommon sense is.”
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Common sense isn't.
Corollary: Uncommon sense is.”
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“Written in ink, in German, in a small, hopelessly sincere handwriting, were the words "Dear God, life is hell." Nothing led up to or away from it. Alone on the page, and in the sickly stillness of the room, the words appeared to have the stature of an uncontestable, even classic indictment. X stared at the page for several minutes, trying, against heavy odds, not to be taken in. Then, with far more zeal than he had done anything in weeks, he picked up a pencil stub and wrote down under the inscription, in English, "Fathers and teachers, I ponder, 'What is Hell?' I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”
― Nine Stories
― Nine Stories
“Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
“Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.”
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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.”
― Memoirs of Hadrian
― Memoirs of Hadrian
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