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A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
 Good sense which only is the gift of Heaven,
 And though no science, fairly worth the seven.  
 Good sense which only is the gift of Heaven,
 And though no science, fairly worth the seven. 
 Whate'er in her Horizon doth appear,
 She is one Orb of Sense, all Eye, all aiery Ear.  
 Whate'er in her Horizon doth appear,
 She is one Orb of Sense, all Eye, all aiery Ear. 
If Poverty is the Mother of Crimes, want of Sense is the Father.
If Poverty is the Mother of Crimes, want of Sense is the Father.
 Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense
 Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.  
 Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense
 Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence. 
 He had used the work in its Pickwickian sense . . . he had merely 
considered him a humbug read more 
 He had used the work in its Pickwickian sense . . . he had merely 
considered him a humbug in a Pickwickian point of view. 
What thin partitions sense from thought divide.
What thin partitions sense from thought divide.
 Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam:
 Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.  
 Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam:
 Know, sense, like charity, begins at home. 
 Oft has good nature been the fool's defence,
 And honest meaning gilded want of sense.  
 Oft has good nature been the fool's defence,
 And honest meaning gilded want of sense.