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Common Sense
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“There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.”
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“I'm not one o' those as can see the cat i' the dairy, an' wonder what she's come after.”
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“Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.”
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“Look twice before you leap.”
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“Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.”
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“All the help she had was a girl she just knew didn't have sense enough to pound sand into a rat-hole.”
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“Saddle your dreams afore you ride 'em.”
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“If the cat has kittens in the oven, that don't make 'em biscuits.”
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“To me the phrase, 'Act like you have some sense,' probably spoken by at least one Black woman to every Black child who ever lived, is a cryptic warning that says volumes about keeping your feet on the ground and your ass covered.”
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“... I am sure that it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness.”
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“I might not know how to use thirty-four words where three would do, but that does not mean I don't know what I'm talking about.”
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“Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact.”
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“... common sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable.”
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“Once upon a time Anancy tink to himself seh dat if him coulda collect up all de common-sense ina de worl an keep it fi himself, den him boun to get plenty money an plenty powah, for everybody woulda haffi come to him wid dem worries an him woulda charge dem very dear wen him advise dem.”