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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
Economy
Knack
Seeing
Vengeance
Politics
Wrestling
Common
Liberalism
Inspirational
Meditation
Sense
Ought
Done
Things
Vision

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