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Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is paid with flattery.
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People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.
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Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
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Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.
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So our Lord God commonly gave riches to those gross asses to whom he vouchsafed nothing else.
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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable, is made up of civility and falsehood.
Thoughts (1754) -
The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
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The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.
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The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
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This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.
The Fable of the Bees Remark C, p. 69 -
Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
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What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.
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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
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A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
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Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
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Abscond. To ''move'' in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
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