A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.
Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.
There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.
How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!
It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
An age at which many men are not quite common - at which they are hopeful of achievement, resolute in avoidance, thinking that Mammon shall never put a bit in their mouths and get astride their backs, but rather that Mammon, if they have anything to