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Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. – Josh Billings

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Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland. – Josh Billings

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If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself. – Josh Billings

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Every man has his follies – and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. – Josh Billings

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Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them. – Johann von Goethe

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Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. – Rene Descartes

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Common sense hides shame. – Scottish Proverb

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The best prophet is common sense, our native wit. – Euripides

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