#commonly

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

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

— Martin Luther

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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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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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Acting is the most personal of our crafts. The make-up of a human being - his physical, mental and emotional habits - influence his acting to a much greater extent than commonly recognized. ↗

— Lee Strasberg

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Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience... And that's what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it... can be a shared experience. ↗

— James Taylor

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My opinion was that if we had a common enemy we should get together commonly. ↗

— Julius Rosenberg

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Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

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Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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