#persons

Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who wish I would write another These Old Shades, it ought to sell like hot cakes. ↗

— Georgette Heyer

#cakes #hot #i #judging #letters

In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike. ↗

— Walter Pater

#alike #even #eye #failure #form

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#evil #persons #society #solitude #than

It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#also #give #impulse #involved #love

A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good. ↗

— Bhumibol Adulyadej

#another #elicit #good #good person #goodness

In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

#acquaintance #admitted #allowed #although #anyone

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#must #parties #persons #things #tools

Let me be clear - I want all Louisiana citizens to have choice - including the elderly and persons with disabilities - and their families - who rely on the state for their care. ↗

— Kathleen Blanco

#choice #citizens #clear #disabilities #elderly

It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other. ↗

— Oliver Evans

#any #communication #each #frequently #happens

Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society. ↗

— William Falconer

#crowded #expose #fewer #follow #health