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Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

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Common sense is very uncommon. ↗

— Horace Greeley

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Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensible. ↗

— John Grigg

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The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

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Common sense steps in here and says: Separate the parts you want to be mobile from the parts you want to be inert. You have seen the result, and I know many have the skill to apply it. ↗

— Lawrence Hargrave

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Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others! ↗

— William Hazlitt

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Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

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Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

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It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day. ↗

— Marilu Henner

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It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church. ↗

— Matthew Henry

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