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Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent.
Adoniram Judson
3.
Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace
Chuck Jones
6.
Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally.
Marie Bashkirtseff
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Do not be fooled by its commonplace appearance. Like so many things, it is not what outside, but what is inside that counts.
Walt Disney
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Originality is never embraced as quickly as the commonplace.
Franklyn Ajaye
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It is a commonplace that Racine is untranslatable. This is not because his verse is difficult, but because it is not.
Kenneth Rexroth
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Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.
Aristotle
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the territory of grief ... is both cruel and commonplace.
Gail Caldwell
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Comedy defends the commonplace; tragedy explodes it.
Mason Cooley
18.
We do not hug our miracles close. We put them hastily away, preferring the commonplace to live with.
Fulton Oursler
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Death, which we are accustomed to consider an evil, really acts for us the friendliest part, and takes away the commonplace of existence.
Alexander Smith
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Culturally, it is commonplace for African women to work.
Richard Attias
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The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.
Gertrude Atherton
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Every commonplace or trite observation is not a truism.
Charles Lamb
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It is the gift of all poets to find the commonplace astonishing, and the astonishing quite natural.
Margery Sharp