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They were tuneful, unsophisticated poems, which dealt with the joys and tribulations of the common people, the folly of pride, and the absurdity of hypocrisy.
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There were periods where the common people felt oppressed in certain regions, but often they were content with their lot.
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They considered it their dervish duty to spread knowledge among the common people.
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But simply calling all the candidates "populists," a catchall term for politicians who champion the common people against a privileged elite, doesn't explain much.
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These essays denounced fraud and embezzlement, and showed the hard life of the common people.
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The common people might get vicarious pleasure from the main characters who get over the difference of social standings and punish the greedy lord.
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The common people also purchased firecrackers from city shopkeepers and vendors, made of simple sticks of bamboo filled with a small amount of gunpowder.
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The cartoon was intended to portray attitudes of isolationism, impatience with the concerns of common people, and a lack of enthusiasm for democracy.
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He maintains an aura of aloofness from common people but at the same time mixes with them freely, shedding all sorts of reservations.
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This new constitution empowered the predominantly-foreign legislature and disenfranchised the common people, who could not meet the new property qualifications.
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