#common people

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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He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him. ↗

— Roger Ascham

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God must hate common people, because he made them so common. ↗

— Philip Wylie

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