“The most ordinary things could be made extraordinary.”
Nicholas Sparks book The Lucky One
Variant: Even the most ordinary things can be made extraordinary simply by doing it with the right people.
Source: The Lucky One
“Man is made of ordinary things, and habit is his nurse.”
Act I, sc. iv
Wallenstein (1798), Part II - Wallensteins Tod (The Death of Wallenstein)
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