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Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it. It's something that people think they have and then they realize that no one else has it. Common sense is a very underrated quality. A lot of people think they don't need it because everyone else seems to have it. But it makes people happy to find out that everyone else isn't as smart as them after all.
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