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commoner
«If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Dreams,
Happiness,
Life,
Success
| Keywords:
Advances, by the hour, common, commoner, confidently, direction, dreams, endeavored, endeavors, hours, imagined, in common, meet, To Live, unexpected
«By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature; formal qualities will be neglected or actually despised. The style will often be strange, incorrect, overburdened, and loose, and almost always strong and bold. Writers will be more anxious to work quickly than to perfect details. Short works will be commoner than long books, wit than erudition, imagination than depth. There will be a rude and untutored vigor of thought with great variety and singular fecundity. Authors will strive to astonish more than to please, and to stir passions rather than to charm taste.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
Almost always, anxious, aristocratic, astonish, by and large, characteristic, commoner, commoners, despised, details, erudition, exhibit, exhibited, exhibiting, exhibits, fecundity, formal, incorrect, in short order, large order, neglected, overburden, overburdened, regularities, regularity, rude, short order, singular, singulars, stir, The Order, untutored, variety, vigor
«Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Common sense
| Keywords:
acquired, age, Age to Age, collection, collections, come of age, common, commoner, common sense, eighteen, prejudiced, prejudices, sense, sensed, sense an, sensing
«Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.»
«Intelligence has been commoner among American Presidents than high character»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
American Presidents, commoner, commoners, Presidents
«It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare»
«I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming pe»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
absurd, air, aired, airing, airs, Air In, air out, approve, approving, attitude, charmed, charming, common, commoner, common people, disapprove, disapproves, disapproving, interfere, interfered, interfering, moral, notice, now, On the air, P.E., pe, prejudiced, prejudices, say, send for, send in, send out, Send Up, sent, take notice, take the air, up in the air
