Famous quotes containing the word common:
“I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of mans estate.”
—Michel de Montaigne (15331592)
“For all Men would be Cowards if they durst:
And Honestys against all common sense”
—John Wilmot, 2d Earl Of Rochester (16471680)
“We fatuously hoped that we might pluck from the human tragedy itself a consciousness of a common destiny which should bring its own healing, that we might extract from lifes very misfortunes a power of cooperation which should be effective against them.”
—Jane Addams (18601935)
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