"If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is."

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Source : Sam Rayburn (1978). “"Speak, Mister Speaker"”

Sam Rayburn

#Inspirational Quotes #Men Quotes #Common Sense Quotes

“Either way, you are in charge. Jealousy works against you. It takes control away from you, hands it over to the opposition. Maintain control.”
“We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.”
“How much smaller the large places are once we're grown up, when we have car keys and credit cards.”
“If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.”
“If we want there to be peace in the world, we have to be brave enough to soften what is rigid in our hearts, to find the soft spot and stay with it. We have to have that kind of courage and take that kind of responsibility. Thatâ€™s the true practice of peace.”
“I don't compromise my principles for politics.”
“Your heart-as you call it-and hers are alike, after all: they are like mine, like everyone's. They resemble nothing so much as those meters you will find on gas-pipes: they only perk up and start pumping when you drop coins in.”

Source : Sarah Waters (2002). “Fingersmith”, p.140, Penguin
“There is no one so lonely than a man who loves only himself.”

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