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The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you. ↗

— William Dean Howells

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As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers. ↗

— Charles Alexander Eastman

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It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone. ↗

— Edmond H. Fischer

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But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity. ↗

— Philip Levine

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In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers. ↗

— Charles Lyell

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For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

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Sometimes, instead of purchasing a commodity out and out, people want to buy only the use of it, for a longer or shorter period. The price paid for such temporary use is commonly called hire. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

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

— Jonathan Swift

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