“He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stone cutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet.”
“Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.”
“Danger knows full well that Caesar is more dangerous than he. We are two lions litter’d in one day, and I the elder and more terrible.”
“There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.”
“Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. "More weight," he says. And died.”
“Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.”