(48 votes)   The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset
1883-1955, Spanish Essayist, Philosopher

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(42 votes)   Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.

William Wordsworth
1770-1850, British Poet

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(41 votes)   If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(39 votes)   Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet

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