Common Reading Experience

Famous quotes containing the words common, reading and/or experience:

“The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another ... is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.”
—Adam Smith (1723–1790)

“After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)

“I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad—and to travel for it too!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)