Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

Henry Ward Beecher

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• If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Man
  • Common Sense
  • Kind of sense