Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. ✨ S…

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. ✨ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1838). The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Preface. Formula fidei de ss. Trinitate. Nightly prayer. Notes on the book of common prayer; Hooker; Field; Donne; Henry More; Heinrichs; Hacket; Jeremy Taylor; The pilgrim's progress; John Smith. Letter to a godchild, p.186
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