"I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe."
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"Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage."
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"Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected."
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"A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale."
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"Mass killings have gone from being an extremely rare occurrence to a common occurrence."
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"Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another."
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"Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer."
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"In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal."
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"We have global communication and yet confrontation is more common than dialogue."
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"Friends should have all things in common."
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"It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn."
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"Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration."
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"Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life."
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"The education of the common people requires, perhaps, in a civilized and commercial society, the attention of the public more than that of people of some rank and fortune."
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"Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable."
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"Electrical matter differs from common matter in this, that the parts of the latter mutually attract, those of the former mutually repel each other."
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"Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature."
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"All of our deeply held dreams and aspirations require us to build on our common bonds."
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"Have common sense and stick to the point."
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"I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God."
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