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Uncommon Quotes by Charles Dickens
- When men are about to commit, or sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity for the object…
- "I am not afeard, my Heart's-delight," resumed the Captain. "There's been most uncommon bad weather in them latitudes, there's no denyin', and they have drove…
- May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
- If you can't get to be uncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. [...] live well and die happy.
More Uncommon Quotes
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming… — Jane Austen
- A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. — Walter Bagehot
- Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies… — Joseph Addison
- Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man… — Joseph Addison
- Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while. — Ambrose Bierce
- Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. — Samuel Butler
- When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. — George Washington Carver
- And therein shines one major definition of what it meant to be Clinton D. Powell: someone who looked for, trusted in, and… — Aberjhani
- Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt… — George A. Sheehan
- The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon… — Booker T. Washington
- It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a… — Orison Swett Marden