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— Jonathan Swift"That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own."
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The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament.
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The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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