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The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. (An Essay concerning Human Understanding)
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A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
View quotes by William Ralph Inge

The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
View quotes by Henry L Mencken

It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right of humanity.
View quotes by Seneca

Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
View quotes by Chapman Cohen

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
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To take away life is a power which the vilest of the earth have in common; to give it belongs to gods and kings alone
View quotes by Metastasio

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
View quotes by George Bernard Shaw

When it comes to your health, I recommend frequent doses of that rare commodity among Americans - common sense.
View quotes by Vincent Askey

It is a common rule with primitive people not to waken a sleeper, because his soul is away and might not have time to get back.
View quotes by James George Frazer

The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives - DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.
View quotes by Dale Turner

Dirt is only matter out of place; and what is a blot on the escutcheon of the Common Law may be a jewel in the crown of the Social Republic
View quotes by John Chipman Gray

Often the authorities have seemed more concerned with encouraging distinctive identities than with promoting common cultural values of nationhood
View quotes by David Davis

Keeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoverished dermatologist.
View quotes by Calvin Trillin

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.
View quotes by Nora Roberts

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
View quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
View quotes by Douglas Adams

Cigars had burned low, and we were beginning to sample the disillusionment that usually afflicts old school friends who have met again as men and found themselves with less in common than they had believed they had
View quotes by James Hilton

The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be an actor. Not to realize they're an asset would be counterproductive to the cause; they serve the common good.
View quotes by Billy Zane

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