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As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote. ↗

— Lyn Nofziger

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It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

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This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

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All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time. ↗

— Katharine Anthony

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We realized that the only persons we can truly trust in this world is each other and our families. ↗

— Marion Jones

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It's not good to focus on one person or two persons about being your rivals. The important thing is just to train hard and be ready for the competition and to prepare for the races so that in case of anything that comes out, you are able to handle it. ↗

— David Rudisha

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