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It is one of the commonest of our mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all that there is to perceive.
— Charles W. Leadbeater
When you first commence painting everything is a muddle. Even the commonest colors seem to have the devil in them.
— Thomas Eakins
The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature.
— Bertrand Russell
Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.
— Lord Chesterfield
The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.
— Henry David Thoreau
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
— George Bernard Shaw
It is the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.
— Charles Webster Leadbeater
The commonest, dullest, most threadbare topic might be rendered interesting by the skill of the speaker.
— Jane Austen
One of the commonest mistakes is thinking your worries are over when your children get married.
— Kin Hubbard
The commonest ivory tower is that of the average man, the state of passivity towards experience.
— W. H. Auden
The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is hard work.
— Arthur Brisbane
Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.
— Mark Twain
Appeals to the past are among the commonest of strategies in interpretations of the present.
— Edward W. Said
One of the commonest ailments of the present day is the premature formation of opinion.
— Kin Hubbard
George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
— Mark Twain
Money is far commoner than time. When one reflects, one perceives that money is just about the commonest thing there is.
— Arnold Bennett
The true creator may be recognized by his ability always to find about him, in the commonest and humblest thing, items worthy of note.
— Igor Stravinsky
Golden opportunities are nothing to laziness, but industry makes the commonest chances golden.
— Orison Swett Marden
Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages.
— James M. Barrie
Music is the major form of communication. It's the commonest vibration, the people's news broadcast, especially for kids.
— Richie Havens
Grief ennobles the commonest people because it has its own essential grandeur. To shine with the luster of grief, a person need only be sincere.
— Honore De Balzac
Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.
— John Osborne
