I have a pretty major problem with a language where one of the most common variables has the name $_
I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.
A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.
It is a very common failing, never to be pleased with our fortune nor displeased with our character.
It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.
What it meant to me: a happy life, of course, companionship, of course. A common objective, I think.
Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.