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“What history touches the woman in the rice paddy driving her water buffalo ahead of her plow while her husband is off somewhere, most likely a conscript, carrying a weapon?”

History Conscription Common Folk Great Man History

Book:Chapterhouse: Dune

Source: Chapterhouse: Dune

“Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.”

Lasts Names Common Century Folks Common Folk

Author:Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

“Commanding goodness and forbiding to do evil (are) for the amendment and correction of society and the common folks.”

Evil Common Goodness Folks Amendments Corrections Common Folk

Author:Fatima bint Muhammad

“When the leaders speak of peace, the common folk know war is coming.”

Knows War Speak Common Leader Folks Common Folk

Book:Poems, 1913-1956

Source: Poems, 1913-1956

“It is my belief one should not belittle the artist; while, however glorious his fame may seem, his time on Mount Olympus as an honourable guest of Zeus is short. It's a pity, but all too eager will the common folk drag him from this etherial heights to the low and trodden earth.”

Should May Seems Earth Artist Belief Common Fame Lows Folks Pity Height Glorious Guests Drag Zeus Belittle Olympus Common Folk

Author:Ludwig van Beethoven

“I remember when Langston Hughes used to write a column in black newspapers around this character Jesse B. Semple. He always used that as a voice, sometimes in comic ways, of having everyday people's voice come through this common folk hero, who was an ordinary working guy. He would talk about anything from police brutality to the Korean War. Those kinds of expression and identification are no longer prevalent in our popular culture.”

“Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.”

Inspiration Literature Common Folks Obvious Common Sense Sentiments Sentimental Common Folk

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“That proves you are unusual,' returned the Scarecrow; 'and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.”

People World Dies Common Tree This World Prove Folks Worthy Convinced Consideration Unusual Unnoticed Scarecrow Reasonableness Common Folk

Book:30+ FANTASY ADVENTURES & FAIRY TALES – Ultimate Collection (Magical World Series): The Wizard of Oz Series, Dot and Tot of Merryland, Mother Goose in Prose, The Magical Monarch of Mo, American Fairy Tales, The Master Key, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Sea Fairies…

Source: 30+ FANTASY ADVENTURES & FAIRY TALES – Ultimate Collection (Magical World Series): The Wizard of Oz Series, Dot and Tot of Merryland, Mother Goose in Prose, The Magical Monarch of Mo, American Fairy Tales, The Master Key, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Sea Fairies…

“The most popular man under a democracy is not the most democratic man, but the most despotic man. The common folk delight in the exactions of such a man. They like him to boss them. Their natural gait is the goose step.”

Men Natural Common Steps Democracy Democratic Folks Delight Boss Geese Gait Common Folk

Book:H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series

Source: H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series

“Gehrig was not like the common folk; Created, was he, like the strongest oak.”

Common Folks Strongest Oaks Common Folk

Author:Willard Mullin

“When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.”

Knows War Lying Order Speak Common Leader Written Folks Bread Hopefully Curse Cynical Sellers Daily Bread Mobilization Common Folk

Author:Bertolt Brecht