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 Sensible people find nothing useless.
 [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]  
 Sensible people find nothing useless.
 [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.] 
 Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank.
 [Lat., Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in illa
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 Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank.
 [Lat., Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in illa
  Fortuna.] 
 Common sense is not so common.
 [Fr., Le sens commun n'est pas si common.]
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 Common sense is not so common.
 [Fr., Le sens commun n'est pas si common.]
   - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire), 
 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. 
 Be sober, and to doubt prepense,
 These are the sinews of good sense.  
 Be sober, and to doubt prepense,
 These are the sinews of good sense. 
 He had used the work in its Pickwickian sense . . . he had merely 
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 He had used the work in its Pickwickian sense . . . he had merely 
considered him a humbug in a Pickwickian point of view. 
 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. 
 Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume;
 The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves.
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 Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume;
 The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves.
  Sense is the diamond, weighty, solid, sound;
   When cut by wit, it casts a brighter beam;
    Yet, wit apart, it is a diamond still. 
Huzzaed out of my seven senses.
Huzzaed out of my seven senses.