#persons

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves. ↗

— Don Marquis

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Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death. ↗

— John Pearson

#birth #carry #common #death #die

American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

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The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state. ↗

— Plato

#allowed #either #good #home #lie

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

— Frederick Pollock

#doubts #fail #how #learned

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

— Protagoras

#hold #let us #making #our #ourselves

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

— Samuel Richardson

#excel #excellence #fancy #human #may

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

— Samuel Richardson

#great #laboring #made #ought #persons

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

— Samuel Richardson

#grown #labor #persons #plays #salutary

Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged. ↗

— Claude M. Bristol

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