Famous quotes containing the words common and/or mode:
“The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
“Yours of the 24th, asking the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law is received. The mode is very simple, though laborious, and tedious. It is only to get the books, and read, and study them carefully.... Work, work, work, is the main thing.”
—Abraham Lincoln (18091865)
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