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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. ↗

— James Madison

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To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen. ↗

— John Henry Newman

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Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves. ↗

— Protagoras

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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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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature. ↗

— James Thurber

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The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act. ↗

— Charles Hodge

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School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them. ↗

— Ivan Illich

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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

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