Quote by Max Beerbohm
Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter. – Max Beerbohm

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To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine. – Max Beerbohm

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Nonsense is good only because common sense is so limited. – George Santayana

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It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put on the troubled seas of thought. – John Kenneth Galbraith

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Bump! Bump! Bump! Did you ever ride a wump? We have a Wump with just one hump. But, we know a man called Mr. Gump. Mr Gump has a seven hump Wump. So… if you Bump! Bump! Just jump on the hump on the Wump of Gump. – Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)

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Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they can talk sense. – Robert Frost

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These people are very unskilled in arms… with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished. – Christopher Columbus

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The church is the great lost and found department. – Robert Short

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