Action Quote by Henry David Thoreau

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

— George Bernard Shaw

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— D. H. Lawrence

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— Ossian Everett Mills

...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in…

— Samuel Johnson

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— Reinhold Niebuhr

A man of great common sense and good taste is a man without originality or moral courage.

— George Bernard Shaw

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

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— James Branch Cabell

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

— George Bernard Shaw