 | "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
- Albert Einstein
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| "The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79."
- Douglas Adams
, "Mostly Harmless". |
| "[Common sense] is the best sense I know of."
- Lord Chesterfield
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| "The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next."
- Matthew Arnold
, 'God and the Bible,' 1875. |
| "Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
, 'Art,' 1841. |
| "If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice."
- Tom Stoppard
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