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  • Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.

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  • Lord Chesterfield Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • John Florio For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good.
    John Florio
    Italian-English linguist and translator (also called Giovanni Florio) (1553 - 1625)
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  • Virginia Woolf Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection. The mellow light which swims over the past, the beauty which suffuses even the commonest little figures of that
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Bertrand Russell Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Kin Hubbard One of the commonest mistakes is thinking your worries are over when your children get married.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • John Keats Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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