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Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

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Josh Billings
Age: 67 †
Born: 1818
Born: April 21
Died: 1885
Died: October 14
Humorist
Writer
Lanesboro
Massachusetts
Henry Wheeler Shaw
Common
Wrestling
Inspirational
Liberalism
Sense
Meditation
Done
Ought
Things
Vision
Economy
Seeing
Knack
Politics
Vengeance

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