"Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.…" — Jose Ortega y Gasset

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• Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative. — Norman Rockwell
• My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are… — Harry Houdini
• An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers. — William Hazlitt
• Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the… — Felix Frankfurter
• One's worst enormities remain within, and it is only one's vulgar commonplaces of error and folly that turn into murders… — Lewis Mumford
• Is there anything more terrible than a "call"? It affords an occasion for the exchange of the most threadbare commonplaces.… — Miguel de Unamuno
• The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery. — Gertrude Atherton
• Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem… — Steve Leveen
• Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident. — Eric Hoffer
• The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another… — John Stuart Mill
• My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me… — Arthur Conan Doyle
• It has always seemed to me. ever since early childhood, amid all the commonplaces of life, i was very near… — Lucy Maud Montgomery

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