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So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.
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Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.
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Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.
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Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way - that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that.
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Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
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Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features.
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Swans sing before they die - t'were no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing.
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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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That the Jews were unholy was a belief so ingrained by the Church [by the 14th century] that the most devout persons were the harshest in their antipathy, none more so than St. Louis.
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The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
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The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears with them.
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The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.
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The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
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The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.
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The one who count are those persons who-though they may be of little renown-respond to and are responsible for the continuation of the living spirit.
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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.
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