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Letter "G" » good sense
«A proverb is good sense brought to a point.»
«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
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«Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.»
«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.»
«Good sense is a thing all need, few have, and none think they want.»
«Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.»
«Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.»
«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»
«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.»