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Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

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Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense. ↗

— Charles Perrault

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In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness. ↗

— Stephen King

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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

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Common sense is very uncommon. ↗

— Horace Greeley

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The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense. ↗

— Dean Inge

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Uncommon valor was a common virtue. ↗

— Chester W. Nimitz

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To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success. ↗

— Henry J. Heinz

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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

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