It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
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René Descartes Quote
“Common sense is the best distributed thing in the world, for everyone thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.”
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