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«To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.»
«The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.»
Author: Eden Phillpotts (Writer) | Keywords: sensible
«When a load of bricks, dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house; when a handful of springs and screws and wheels, emptied on a desk, can gather themselves into a watch, then and not until then will it seem sensible, to some of us at least, to believe that all these thousands or millions of worlds could have been created, balanced and set to revolving in their separate orbits -- all without any directing intelligence at all.»
«Why does this applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us so little happiness? The simple answer runs: Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.»
«When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.»
«Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.»
«We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature»
Author: Plutarch (Author, Biographer) | Keywords: custom, sensible

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