"Common sense" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... qualified her father, eyeing her sharply. "When I give orders I expect people to use their common sense. Why isn't my tea ready? ...
— At Sunwich Port, Complete • W.W. Jacobs
... that which has been accorded him for his writings on philosophy and in Talmudic literature, but he well deserves a place among the great practical masters of medicine, as well as high rank among the physicians of his time. There is little that is original in his writing, but his thoroughgoing common sense, his wide knowledge, and his discriminating, eclectic faculty make his writings of special value. As might have been expected, the Aphorisms of Hippocrates attracted his attention, and, besides, he wrote a series of aphorisms of his own. The most ...
— Old-Time Makers of Medicine • James J. Walsh
... it was not long before the Widow McCarty married a young Englishman, James Gann, Esq.—of the great oil-house of Gann, Blubbery, and Gann,—who was boarding in the same house with Mrs. Crabb and her daughter. These ladies, who had their full share of common sense, took care to keep the twins in the background until such time as the Widow McCarty had become Mrs. Gann. Then on the day after the wedding, in the presence of many friends who had come to offer their congratulations, a stout ...
— Boys and girls from Thackeray • Kate Dickinson Sweetser
... Bill must bring Sarah and the baby home in good time, so he will milk the cows," Tommy answered. "He wanted them to stay for the concert, but Sarah had an amazing attack of common sense, and said it was no place for a baby. I didn't think she considered any place unfit for a ...
— Back To Billabong • Mary Grant Bruce
... of conviction and maintenance, in the midst of all these phenomena of our universe, telluric and uranological, as the test of everything valuable in human character and morals. And thus it has come about, that genius, with its native instincts of reason, truth, and common sense, is doomed to pay the penalty of its preeminence and its divergencies, and suffer at the hands of friends and enemies alike, from the show of those false appearances, insincerities, equivocations, which are its natural ...
— Atlantic Monthly Vol. 6, No. 33, July, 1860 • Various
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