#commonly

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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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

#because #book #commonly #does #duty

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#commonly #grumbling #hear #him #his

Who belongs to the community of the commonly protected? ↗

— Robert Casey

#commonly #community #protected #who

To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success. ↗

— Henry J. Heinz

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

— Ben Jonson

#careless #commonly #curious #face #her

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

#called #commonly #course #developing #developing world

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

Notwithstanding this high Ecclesiastical authority, he who dared accept truth only because it could be proved, or proved to be good, and disregard authority, was commonly stigmatized as an infidel. ↗

— Ethan A. Hitchcock

#authority #because #commonly #could #dared

It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it. ↗

— Archibald Alexander

#believe #brought #cases #common #commonly