"The real trouble with this world of ours……" — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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• The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak. — Mark Twain
• To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of… — Charles Dudley Warner
• Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest… — James M. Barrie
• One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy. — Jane Austen
• The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is… — Florence Nightingale
• Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it… — Virginia Woolf
• The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing,… — Igor Stravinsky
• Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the… — George Bernard Shaw
• What is commonest and cheapest and nearest and easiest is Me, Me going in for my chances, spending for vast… — Walt Whitman
• He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only… — George Eliot
• Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint… — Rebecca Harding Davis
• Sometimes I think I am going mad. I live for days in the mystery and tears of things so that… — W.N.P. Barbellion

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