W. Somerset Maugham
Novelist, Playwright
"No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind."
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Commonplace
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Arthur Conan Doyle
Writer, Physician
"Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace."
Walt Disney
Animator, Film Producer
"Do not be fooled by its commonplace appearance. Like so many things, it is not what outside, but what is inside that counts."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"The universal subjugator, the commonplace."
Aristotle
Philosopher
"Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace."
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"Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding."
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"Death, which we are accustomed to consider an evil, really acts for us the friendliest part, and takes away the commonplace of existence."
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"Anything seems commonplace, once explained."
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"To genius life never grows commonplace."
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