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Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh. ↗

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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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

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What we are trying to do is to create a social business in Bangladesh, a joint venture to create restaurants for common people. Good, healthy food at affordable prices so that people don't have to opt for food that is unhealthy and unhygienic. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

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Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people. ↗

— James Howell

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To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style. ↗

— Roger Ascham

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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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