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May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
Charles Dickens
The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
Adam Smith
No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.
Adam Smith
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
H. L. Mencken
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
Alexander Pope
'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Alexander Pope
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
Woodrow Wilson
The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
Thomas Paine
I've got mad energy for days. That's what people can't get their minds around. They say, 'Oh, he's going to crash.' They try to apply all these common terms to a guy who is not common. I don't fit into their little box.
Charlie Sheen
It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
James Russell Lowell
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
Soren Kierkegaard
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
Booker T. Washington
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
Booker T. Washington
A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
George Eliot
It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.
George Eliot
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
H. L. Mencken
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
H. L. Mencken
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
H. L. Mencken
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
Walt Whitman
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
George Washington Carver
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