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Robert Green Ingersoll

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

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Robert Green Ingersoll is saying that practical judgment and everyday reasoning are far more valuable than formal schooling alone. He believes that education without the ability to apply sense in real life is less useful than having good sense even without formal learning.

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