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What is common sense? That which attracts the least opposition: that which brings most agreeable and worthy results.

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Source: in "Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations: A Collection of Approximately" p. 424; quoting from Sinner Sermons: A Selection of the Best Paragraphs of E W Howe (1926)
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