I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.
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Agnes Grey
by
Anne Bronte
"Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
by
Oscar Wilde
"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor."
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The Poet at the Breakfast Table
by
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
"I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense."
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David Copperfield
by
Charles Dickens
Dombey and Son had often dealt in hides, but never in hearts. They left that fancy ware to boys and girls, and boarding-schools and books. Mr. Dombey would have reasoned: That a matrimonial alliance with himself must, in the nature of things, be gratifying and honourable to any woman of common sense. That the hope of giving birth to a new partner in such a house, could not fail to awaken a glorious and stirring ambition in the breast of the least ambitious of her sex.
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Dombey and Son
by
Charles Dickens
"Our young friend makes up for many obvious mental lacunae by some measure of primitive common sense," remarked Challenger.
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The Lost World
by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle