"You don't have to have a language in common with someone for a sexual rapport. But it helps if the language you don't understand is Italian."
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"My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin."
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"The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie."
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"The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings."
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"The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin."
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"That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own."
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"I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected. Common traditional saying: Caesar's wife must be above suspicion."
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"One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the constitution; the virtue of the citizen must therefore be relative to the constitution of which he is a member."
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"Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is."
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"I just know that the one thing that we all have in common is challenges. No one lives a challenge free life."
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"Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely."
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"The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception."
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"A common man, even like myself, I don't know how to pay my taxes."
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"It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends."
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"It is clear that those constitutions which aim at the common good are right, as being in accord with absolute justice; while those which aim only at the good of the rulers are wrong."
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"A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them."
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"Tis ever common That men are merriest when they are from home."
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"The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic."
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"It is very common for us to desire most what we are least qualified to obtain."
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"A writer is not different from a reader, in that the common ragbag of orthodoxies and assumptions is what a poet has to work with as well."
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