Letter

 1 Introd |     to the exigencies of the common weal, which subsists only
 2 Introd |      and go down to rot in a common pit. If I read Flaubert’
 3 Introd |  believe that the crowd, the common herd will always be hateful.
 4 XXI    |  that the poor devil remains common. One ought to love common
 5 XXI    |    common. One ought to love common people more than oneself,
 6 XL     |      in the air a current of common ideas? For instance, I have
 7 XLVII  |      is, moreover a mania so common, that one ought to refrain
 8 LX     |      that they put it in the common exchequer. I began botanizing
 9 XCII   |  skim over the water and are common every where. The name is
10 CI     |      so on. A man who has no common sense ought not to try to
11 CXXXV  |     They call me idiotic and common. Barbey d’Aurevilly’s article (
12 CXCV   |  believe that the crowd, the common herd will always be hateful.
13 CCXLIII|       I don’t think that the common reader could admire it as
14 CCLXVI |  XIXth century. To establish common sense or the prevailing
15 CCCII  | sermons; I have that much in common with the orthodox, but I