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 Common sense is not so common.
 [Fr., Le sens commun n'est pas si common.]
   - Voltaire read more 
 Common sense is not so common.
 [Fr., Le sens commun n'est pas si common.]
   - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire), 
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. 
What thin partitions sense from thought divide.
What thin partitions sense from thought divide.
 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 
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. 
 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.] 
 Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume;
 The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves.
  Sense read more 
 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. 
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.