#common

This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist. ↗

— Horace

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Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things. ↗

— Horace

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My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business. ↗

— Harry Houdini

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All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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The most common trouble with advertising is that it tries too hard to impress people. ↗

— James Randolph Adams

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In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

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Common sense is calculation applied to life. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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