“I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.”
Anne Brontë book Agnes Grey
Variant: No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.
Source: Agnes Grey
“When men lack a sense of awe, there will be disaster.”
— Laozi, book Tao Te Ching
Source: Tao Te Ching, Chapter 72, translated by Gia Fu Feng
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Baron d'Holbach (1723–1789) French-German author, philosopher, encyclopedist
Good Sense without God, or, Freethoughts Opposed to Supernatural Ideas (London: W. Stewart & Co., ca. 1900) ( Project Gutenberg e-text http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/gsens10.txt), preface <br class="br">Translator unknown. Original publication in French at Amsterdam, 1772, as Le bon sens ("Common Sense"), and often attributed to John Meslier.
“Romania is dying because of a lack of men, not a lack of programs.”
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (1899–1938) Romanian politician
For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936), Politics
“The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.”
Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989) American poet, novelist, and literary critic
As quoted in Vision and Leadership in Sustainable Development (1999) by Chris Maser.
“The root of all difficulties is a lack of the sense of the Presence of God.”
Emmet Fox (1886–1951) American New Thought writer
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) American writer
Ile Forest (p. 29)
Short fiction, Orsinian Tales (1976)
Maureen Corrigan (1955) American journalist and writer
Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading (2005)
Source: Interlude, “Books, What a Jolly Company They Are” (p. 57)
