Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.

—Helen Rowland

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About Helen Rowland

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Helen May Rowland (; 1875–1950) was an American journalist and humorist. For many years she wrote a newspaper column in the New York World called "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl". Many of her pithy insights from these columns were published in book form, including Reflections of a Bachelor Girl (1909),...

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In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar—a practice which is still continued.

—Helen Rowland

You will never win if you never begin.

—Helen Rowland

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Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

—Helen Rowland

Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.

—Helen Rowland

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

—Helen Rowland

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Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

—Josh Billings

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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

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If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.

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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

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