Commonly Abused

Famous quotes containing the words commonly and/or abused:

“To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“We have tried so hard to adulterate our hearts, and have so greatly abused the microscope to study the hideous excrescences and shameful warts which cover them and which we take pleasure in magnifying, that it is impossible for us to speak the language of other men.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)