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Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter. Sir Max Beerbohm

23Nov2008 In : Quotes
Author : Frédérick Jézégou

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
Quotations by Sir Max Beerbohm

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Nonsense is good only because common sense is so limited. George Santayana
Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they can talk sense. Robert Frost
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
‘Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected. Charles Lamb
All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. Samuel Butler
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There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself. Henry Fielding
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Common sense is seeing things as they are, and doing things as they should be done. Source Unknown

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