#uncommon

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

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It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war. ↗

— Elihu Root

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In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness. ↗

— Stephen King

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love is the biggest con of all ↗

— Ally Carter

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When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. ↗

— George Washington Carver

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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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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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Uncommon valor was a common virtue. ↗

— Chester W. Nimitz

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It seems you don't approve of the family business Katerina. Or of me. But these chances you take... These things you do... This is a dangerous life to live... alone. ↗

— Ally Carter

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