#persons

No two persons ever read the same book. ↗

— Edmund Wilson

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Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet. ↗

— Ernest Bramah

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Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence. ↗

— Margaret Halsey

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All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final. ↗

— Hypatia

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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time. ↗

— Cornelia Otis Skinner

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Those entrusted with arms... should be persons of some substance and stake in the country. ↗

— William Windham

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Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest. ↗

— Rowan Williams

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Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which they weary themselves. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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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

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