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Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.

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    常识似乎只是不假思索的无意识的另一个名称。它是由童年的偏见,个性的特质和报纸的意见构成的。

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