Common Reading Experience

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

“Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list—the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)

“Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)

“Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)