beware_of_common_sense
andru235
"
Common
sense
is
,
of
all
things
among
men
,
the
most
equally distributed:
for
every
one
thinks
himself
so
abundantly
provided
with
it
,
that
even
those
who
are
most
difficult
to
satisfy
in
everything
else
,
do
not
desire
a
larger
measure
of
this
quality
than
they
already
possess
."
--
R
.
Descartes
[Discoures
on
Method
]
====================================
"
A
man
of
great
common
sense
and
good
taste
-
meaning
thereby
a
man
without
originality
or
moral
courage
."
--
G
.
B
. Shaw [Preface
to
Caesar
and
Cleopatra]
====================================
"
Why
level
downward
to
our
dullest
perception
always
,
and
praise
that
as
common
sense
?
The
commonest
sense
is
the
sense
of
men
asleep
,
which
they
express
by
snoring
."
--
H
. Thoreau [Walden]
====================================
"
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
."
--
O
.
Wilde
[
The
Picture
of
Dorian
Gray
]
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