Commonly Quotes

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If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live… — Robert Bolt
I know of no American who starts from a higher level of aspiration than the journalist. . . . He plans to be both an… — H. L. Mencken
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to ruleâ€”and both commonly succeed, and… — H. L. Mencken
The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as… — Henry David Thoreau
It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement -- that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves… — Sigmund Freud
Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet… — Henry David Thoreau
I realized the shells were talking in a voice I recognized. I should have; it was my own. Had I always known that? I suppose… — Stephen King
Excuse me if I enjoy myself rather obviously! I don't often have the luck to have a dream like this. It is new to me… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small. — Virginia Woolf
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most persons have but a very moderate capacity of happiness. Expecting...in marriage a far greater degree of happiness than they commonly find, and knowing not… — John Stuart Mill
Experience shows that Being is the essential, basic nature of the mind; but, since It commonly remains in tune with the senses projecting outwards toward… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but… — John Lubbock
Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected… — Virginia Woolf
Socially inferior animals are the ones that make the most strenuous, resourceful efforts to get to know their keepers. They prove to be the ones… — Yann Martel
When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them… — David Hume
Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man. — Yann Martel
The country and culture commonly known as "America" had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical… — Robert A. Heinlein
The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure… — John Stuart Mill

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