Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste. - Joseph Chenier

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Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers, for dealing with the problems of men.

Joseph Chenier

Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste.

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