Famous quotes containing the words common and/or rail:
“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)
“If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea of which is a clear gain to the mind. Let people, for instance, rail at friendship, genius, freedom, as long as they willthe very names of these despised qualities are better than anything else that could be substituted for them, and embalm even the most envenomed satire against them.”
—William Hazlitt (17781830)
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