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"[Common sense], if not a sun, is at least a fixed star."
—Fernan Caballero, Elia; or, Spain Fifty Years Ago (1849)

Translated elsewhere as:
If common sense has not the brilliancy of the sun, it has the fixity of the stars.
Fernan Caballero is the pseudonym of Caecilia Böhl de Faber, 1796-1877.
"[Common sense], if not a sun, is at least a fixed star."
—Fernan Caballero, Elia; or, Spain Fifty Years Ago (1849)

Translated elsewhere as:
If common sense has not the brilliancy of the sun, it has the fixity of the stars.
Fernan Caballero is the pseudonym of Caecilia Böhl de Faber, 1796-1877.
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