#commonly

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

#corruptions #nothing #politics #understood #word

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

— Herbert Spencer

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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

#entire #environment #faulkner #held #i

The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

#best #commonly #competition #does #fittest

Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#commonly #interaction #language #only #side

There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#because #commonly #conflicts #connections #expression

The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that it's about mood swings. So, you have an elevated mood. When people think of manic depression, they only hear the word depression. They think one's a depressive. The point is, one's a manic-depressive. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#bipolar #called #commonly #depression #depressive

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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And let me take one of the explanations most commonly given: Analysts were pressured to reach conclusions that would fit the political agenda of one or another administration. I deeply think that is a wrong explanation. ↗

— David Kay

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