#sensible

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity. ↗

— Sa'Di

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My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

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Dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second. ↗

— Helen Fielding

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I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together. ↗

— Dorothy Fields

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Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours. ↗

— Grover Cleveland

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As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing. ↗

— Tim Vine

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I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become an obsessive saver. ↗

— Murray Walker

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I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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And autos are not the only product that could be made more energy efficient if we just put in place sensible requirements. This is also true of many appliances and even of entire buildings. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

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I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. ↗

— Jane Campion

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