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I'm sure I never knew that I'd married a home-missionary." "Darling, please, now, don't laugh at me, and try to make me selfish and worldly. You have such power over me, you ought to be my inspiration." "I'll be your common-sense, John. When you get on stilts, and run benevolence into the ground, I'll pull you down.
Now I am sure if you could once make up your mind in the fear of God, never to undertake more work of any sort than you can carry on calmly, quietly, without hurry or flurry, and the instant you find yourself growing nervous and like one out of breath, would stop and take breath, you would find this simple, common-sense rule doing for you what no prayers or tears could ever accomplish.
"No, Adolphe tries to vex me, he's going slower," says the young wife to her mother. "My dear, go as slow as you like. But I know you'll say I am extravagant when you see me buying another hat." Upon this you utter a series of remarks which are lost in the racket made by the wheels. "What's the use of replying with reasons that haven't got an ounce of common-sense?" cries Caroline.
Nay, so distrustful was she of the possibility of the good man's exerting the slightest common-sense in her absence, that she kept him close at her side while she was engaged in that same operation of packing-up, showing him the exact spot in which the clean shirt was put; and how nicely the old slippers were packed up in one of his own sermons.
"We can't spare old Knowles's brain or heart while he ruins himself. It's something of a Communist fraternity: I don't know the name, but I know the thing." Very hard common-sense shone out of his eyes just then at the clergyman, whom he suspected of being one of Knowles's abettors. "There's two ways for 'em to end.
Keats's father was the principal servant at the Swan and Hoop stables a man of so remarkably fine a common-sense, and native respectability, that I perfectly remember the warm terms in which his demeanor used to be canvassed by my parents after he had been to visit his boys. John was the only one resembling him in person and feature, with brown hair and dark hazel eyes.
To make a finish he despoiled her of her lace and her best gowns, and then selling his own wardrobe he went to his last fight with fortune, provided with two hundred Louis. He played like a madman, without common-sense or prudence, and lost all. His pockets were empty, and seeing me he beckoned to me, and I followed him out of the Spa.
Surely it is about plain enough to be called self-evident, that the only common-sense method of conducting a great moral enterprise is to start with a fundamental, plain principle, so fundamental as not to involve side-relations, and so plain, that it cannot be denied." The main obvious principle he urges is to be pushed until the community surrenders to it. He adds:
'Do you know, the doctor went on kindly after a minute, 'I really do like you and sympathise with you. But what am I to do after this? I can't keep you at the school any longer, can I now? I put it to your own common-sense. I'm afraid, Le Breton it gives me sincere pain to say so but I'm afraid we must part at the end of the quarter. Ernest only muttered that he was very sorry.
Such cool assurance, in an unsupported contradiction of experience and the dictates of the simplest mechanical common-sense, would seem to promise little real value in the book, and promises no less than it really has.
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