“But common sense has no place in first love and never has.”
Mitch Albom (1958) American author
Source: The Time Keeper
“Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor.”
Source: The Poet at the Breakfast Table (1872), p. 120 The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Vol. 3 (1892)
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