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• In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.
• I could get hold of nothing but of some commonplace phrases, those futile phrases that give the measure of our impotence before each other's trials.
• "This Mr. Tyrrel," she said, in a tone of authoritative decision, "seems after all a very ordinary sort of person, quite a commonplace man."
• Finally he began to mutter some commonplaces which meant nothing particularly.
• And something angered Tamara in the way the Prince assisted in all this, out-commonplacing her friend in commonplaces with the suavest politeness.
• "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence."
• Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this our fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by way of commonplace.
• I do not apprehend any difficulty in collecting and commonplacing an universal history from the historians.