Phrases are often repeated in the ballads, just as in the talk of the common man, for the sake of emphasis, but there is neither complexity of plot or characterization nor attempt at decorative literary adornment--the story and the emotion which it calls forth are all in all.

A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context

A common man looking at this decision of the very learned Judge, might possibly object to it.

Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context

The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass -- I the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends.

Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context

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