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"Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose" »Johann von Goethe
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"It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office." »H. L. Mencken
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"It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office." »H.L. Mencken
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"It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for any public office." »Henry Louis Mencken
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"Our common language is ... English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language." »William John Bennett
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"Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love." »Dagobert D. Runes
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"Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today." »Leonid Brezhnev
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"Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys." »Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
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"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security." »Thomas Paine, in his "The Rights of Man" (1791)
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"God must hate common people, because he made them so common." »Philip Wylie
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"The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!" »Oscar Wilde
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"School days are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with brutal violations of common sense and common decency." »Henry Louis Mencken
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"It's counter to common sense, but common sense is only based on a very small subset of the universe." »Ian J. Davenport
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"Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club." »Thomas Huxley
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"common sense is not so common." »Voltaire
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""Knowledge, without common sense," says Lee, is "folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death." But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace." »Austin Farrar
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"Le sens commun n'est pas si commun (Common sense is not so common)" »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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"common sense and sense of humor are the same thing moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing." »Clive Jones
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"The best ideas are common property." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next." »Matthew Arnold
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"There is still no cure for the common birthday." »John Glenn
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"Friends have all things in common." »Plato
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"All things are in common among friends." »Laertius Diogenes
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"To err from the right path is common to mankind." »Sophocles
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"Nothing is more common than unfulfilled potential." »Howard Hendricks
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"The most common lie is that which one lies to himself lying to others is relatively an exception." »Hietzsche
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"Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense - no one needs more of it than one already has" »Rene Descartes
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"We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language." »Oscar Wilde
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"I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"common sense is as rare as genius." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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