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Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on. ↗

— Anthony Powell

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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. ↗

— Voltaire

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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy. ↗

— Voltaire

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My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein. ↗

— George Washington

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When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons. ↗

— John Webster

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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

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Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them. ↗

— Augustus Hare

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Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

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I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it. ↗

— William Hogarth

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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