#common people

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people. ↗

— James Howell

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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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