Famous quotes containing the word common:
“The world is but a perennial movement. All things in it are in constant motionthe earth, the rocks of the Caucasus, the pyramids of Egyptboth with the common motion and with their own.”
—Michel de Montaigne (15331592)
“Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.”
—Burial of the Dead, first anthem, Book of Common Prayer (1662)
“Truth, like climate, is common property ...”
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (18441911)
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