Famous quotes containing the words common and/or examples:
“The common consolation which some good christian or other, is hourly administering to himself,—that he thanks God his mind does not misgive him; and that, consequently, he has a good conscience, because he has a quiet one,—is fallacious.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)