#commonly

To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success. ↗

— Henry J. Heinz

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The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else. ↗

— Martin Luther

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Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house. ↗

— Ben Jonson

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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

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If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

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So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter. ↗

— Donna Tartt

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