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We come to reason, not to dominate. We do not seek to have our way, but to find a common way.
Unity
Lyndon B. Johnson

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Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.
Antipathy
Samuel Johnson

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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.
Peace
Sir Roger L'Estrange

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The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.
Women
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
Adversity
Ann Landers

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Common Sense is in medicine the master workman.
Common Sense
Peter Latham

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Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.
Laughter
Johann Kaspar Lavater

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Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.
Theology
Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Commonplace
Abraham Lincoln

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God must love the common man, he made so many of them.
Humankind
Abraham Lincoln

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The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
Appearance
Abraham Lincoln

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Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
Difficulties
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
Genius
James Russell Lowell

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So our Lord God commonly gave riches to those gross asses to whom he vouchsafed nothing else.
Riches
Martin Luther

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The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.
Money
Martin Luther

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Doing common things uncommonly well.
Excellence
Orison Swett Marden

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Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.
Excellence
Orison Swett Marden

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Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.
Tragedies
John Masefield

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Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
Common Sense
W. Somerset Maugham

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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
Crime and Criminals
H. L. Mencken

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That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!
Common Sense
George Meredith

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It is a common seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgments.
Judgment and Judges
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.
Life and Living
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common
Vulgarity
William Nazlitt

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The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin.
Anarchism
Friedrich Nietzsche

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun