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good sense
«A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.»
«Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
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a hundred, a hundred times, correct, good sense, gratuitous, guilty, impose, infamies, infamy, inflicted, inflicting, nay, nays, not guilty, piece, punishment, rebellion, rouse, rouses, rousing, The Victim, victim
«Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess.»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
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Senses
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distributed, good sense, supplied with
«Good sense is a thing all need, few have, and none think they want.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
good sense, none, sense
«Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.»
Author: Alexander Pope
(Poet)
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Genius
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good sense, preserves, sense of taste, sublime
«Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
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breeding, denial, good nature, good sense, self-denial
«A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me; 'that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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churches, concerts, fairs, good sense
«Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to, convinced that on their good sense we may rely with the most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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attended, common people, degree, due, good sense, preservation, rely