#good sense

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

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I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

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Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations. ↗

— James Mackintosh

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The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#art #beauty #colour #forms #good

Those are just some of the people whom we interviewed in the documentary, but that should provide you with a good sense of the credibility of the individuals who bolster the case that this administration lied us into a war. ↗

— Robert Greenwald

#bolster #case #credibility #documentary #good

I think it's like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot, wanting to be a good band and having a good sense of humour, and living in a situation where we're free to pretty much do what we want. ↗

— Jon Fishman

#free #good #good band #good sense #having

He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really. ↗

— Fay Wray

#because #fair #fun #going #good

However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly. ↗

— Frances Wright

#alike #appear #assertion #assign #assume

In ten minutes, I'm thinking, 'OK, you know what? I love these guys. They're really smart, they're really good, they've got a good sense of comedy, under their guidance, I think maybe this could come out OK.' But I didn't like the part. ↗

— Eugene Levy

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