#sensible

Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order? ↗

— John W. Foster

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My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

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Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

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It is almost impossible to imagine that any one could be so insensible to the high morality of Mr. Mill's character as to suggest to him any course of conduct that was not entirely upright and consistent. ↗

— Millicent Fawcett

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When our Lord says, we must be converted and become as little children, I suppose he means also, that we must be sensible of our weakness, comparatively speaking, as a little child. ↗

— George Whitefield

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A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#head #heart #her #husband #lover

If any man, out of an humour, should turn all his Estate into Money, and keep it dead, he would soon be sensible of Poverty growing upon him, whilst he is eating out of the quick stock. ↗

— Dudley North

#dead #eating #estate #growing #him

My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

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Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#does #else #foreign #foreign policy #government

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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