1 He was like a common gardener walking with a rose.
2 The common hill-flowers wither, but they blossom again.
3 The common people who acted with me seemed to me to be godlike.
4 In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded.
5 Even the common uneducated audience of the pit and gallery lost their interest in the play.
6 I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.
7 The consequence is that he has nothing left for life but his prejudices, his principles, and his common sense.
8 In this country, it is enough for a man to have distinction and brains for every common tongue to wag against him.
9 These common rough people, with their coarse faces and brutal gestures, become quite different when she is on the stage.
10 The inherited stupidity of the race--sound English common sense he jovially termed it--was shown to be the proper bulwark for society.
11 Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.
12 As midnight was striking bronze blows upon the dusky air, Dorian Gray, dressed commonly, and with a muffler wrapped round his throat, crept quietly out of his house.
13 Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar.