“Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.”
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Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
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