"John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!"
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"Common sense has become an uncommon virtue."
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"The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate."
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"When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends."
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"Human law cannot punish or forbid all evil, since while doing away with evils it would do away with many good things, which would hinder the advance of the common good."
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"The immense success of our life is, I think, that our treasure is hid away; or rather in such common things that nothing can touch it."
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"Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare"
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"The most common despair is...not choosing, or willing, to be oneself...[but] the deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than oneself."
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"What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good."
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"Sense is never common."
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"If we reject science, we reject the common man."
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"Some form of common worship and a common place of worship appear to be a human necessity."
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"Nothing is more tragic - or more common - than mental inertia."
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"The aggregate capital appears as the capital stock of all individual capitalists combined. This joint stock company has in common with many other stock companies that everyone knows what he puts in, but not what he will get out of it."
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"Let every action aim solely at the common good."
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"Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator."
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"The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds."
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"Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common."
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"Rely only on yourself; it is a common proverb."
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"But who will dare to speak the truth out clear? The few who anything of truth have learned, And foolishly did not keep truth concealed, Their thoughts and visions to the common herd revealed, Since time began we've crucified and burned"
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