#commoner

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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By almost every account he's a fine young man. I'm simply trying to figure out why I should care that he's three centimeters taller than he was in May. ↗

— John Burnham Schwartz

#empress #japan #love #schwartz #the-commoner

Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice. ↗

— John Burnham Schwartz

#men #scarcity #schwartz #the-commoner #love

Yachts are the closest a commoner can get to sovereignty. ↗

— Charles Simonyi

#commoner #get #sovereignty #yachts

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#any #commoner #cooks #members #murder