Common Reading Experience

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

    Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.
    —“Burial of the Dead,” first anthem, Book of Common Prayer (1662)

    The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations’ love to the deceased.
    Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)

    After experience taught me that all the ordinary
    Surroundings of social life are futile and vain;
    William Dewitt Snodgrass (b. 1926)