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Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable. ↗

— George Washington Carver

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Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves. ↗

— John Tillotson

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It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

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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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Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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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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