Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense; there are forty men of wit for one man of good sense; and he that will carry nothing about with him but gold, will be every day at a loss for readier change.


Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)

Joseph Addison Quotes

Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense; there are forty men of wit for one man of good sense; and he that will carry...

Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense; there are forty men of wit for one man of good sense; and he that will carry...

Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense; there are forty men of wit for one man of good sense; and he that will carry...

Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense; there are forty men of wit for one man of good sense; and he that will carry...