“Cold, truthful common sense was harder to like than warm, hopeful generosity.”
“A blanket could be used to cure the common cold. I mean, come on it’s just common sense. A blanket is warm, and if a cold is what it’s named, then a blanket would transform a cold into some nameless nonentity. Take that, Louis Pasteur. ”
“…thirst is harder to bear than hunger, heat, or cold.”
“its better to be warm than cold”
“I would like to be soft and warm. I would be terrified to be that way. I could be hurt if I were soft and warm. I could be hurt by something other than myself. It is harder to be soft than it is to be hard. I could be hurt by something other than myself.”
“It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.”