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«Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.»
«The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.»
Author: Dean Inge | Keywords: uncommon
«MEEKNESS, n. Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.M is for Moses, Who slew the Egyptian. As sweet as a rose is The meekness of Moses. No monument shows his Post-mortem inscription, But M is for Moses Who slew the Egyptian. --_The Biographical Alphabet_»
«LONGEVITY, n. Uncommon extension of the fear of death.»
«Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.»
«People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.»
«I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one; Of such as these I should not care to vaunt, I'll therefore take our ancient frien»
«That household virtue, most uncommon, / Of constancy to a bad, ugly woman.»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: constancy, household, uncommon
«It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.»
«Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books»
Author: Robert Frost | Keywords: In books, uncommon

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