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Last updated on April 17, 2025.
It is commonly believed that the rights of the American people come from the Constitution. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
What is commonly called friendship is only a little more honor among rogues.
It is plain to me that our prelates, in granting indulgences, do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.
That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
Government, as it was forced upon mankind by their vices, so has it commonly been the creature of their ignorance and mistake.
We commonly confuse closeness with sameness and view intimacy as the merging of two separate I's into one worldview.
Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.
STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached.
HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.
In valley drift we meet commonly with the bones of quadrupeds which graze on plains bordering rivers.
Eyes of youth have sharp sight but commonly not so deep as those of elder age.
What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, nothing but their own stupid and foolish conduct.
It is commonly the case with technologies that you can get the best insight about how they work by watching them fail.
State terrorism - and yet the Israeli invasion Goldstone investigated is still commonly referred to as the Gaza War.
About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right.
To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake.
Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supposed.
These days, tales of what Facebook did with its users during the singularity are commonly used to scare naughty children in Wales.
We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune.
It is plain to me that our prelates in granting indulgences do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.
... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.
Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.
Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.
The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.
I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative.
Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.
He who goes round about in his requests wants commonly more than he chooses to appear to want.
That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.
The heart of a Christian, like the moon, commonly suffers an eclipse when it is at the full, and that by the interposition of the earth.
Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.
We conclude that hedge funds are far riskier and provide much lower returns than commonly supposed.
I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents.
What is commonly called a pest is nature's way of bringing back into balance an imbalance that man has created.
The greatest part of our faults are more excusable than the methods that are commonly taken to conceal them.
Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.
With what shift and pains we come into the World we remember not; but 'tis commonly found no easy matter to get out of it.
Skinheads and Neo-Nazis are commonly known to openly attack people who get in their way or don't agree with them and their agenda.
Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.
Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.
In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice.
If you're selling the same merchandise that's commonly available, and you've got no point of differentiation, you're dead.
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.
To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed.
It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.
Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from, as pickpockets are observed commonly to walk with their hands in their breeches' pockets.
The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.
The ne plus ultra of wickedness ... is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity.
Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.
As is commonly said, ‘to start anything is simple; to develop it and bring it to a successful culmination takes great effort.’
Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most commonly afflicts the gardener.
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
It is commonly said that revenge is sweet, but to a calm and considerate mind, patience and forgiveness are sweeter.
ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him.