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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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We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die. ↗

— Mitch Albom

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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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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

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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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The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order. ↗

— Anna Garlin Spencer

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Following the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, $3 per gallon gasoline became common and our nation has come under considerable strain. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

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It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

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