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1  I like to find out people for myself.
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2  I make a great difference between people.
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3  Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity.
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4  The Americans are an extremely interesting people.
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5  Yes, Mr. Erskine, an absolutely reasonable people.
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6  The world is wide, and has many marvellous people in it.
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7  It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.
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8  When I leave town now I never tell my people where I am going.
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9  When I like people immensely, I never tell their names to any one.
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10  Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.
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11  It is only people who pay their bills who want that, Uncle George, and I never pay mine.
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12  There was a look of fear in his eyes, such as people have when they are suddenly awakened.
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13  I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
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14  She brought me up to royalties, and people with stars and garters, and elderly ladies with gigantic tiaras and parrot noses.
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15  Whenever I have gone there, there have been either so many people that I have not been able to see the pictures, which was dreadful, or so many pictures that I have not been able to see the people, which was worse.
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16  At half-past twelve next day Lord Henry Wotton strolled from Curzon Street over to the Albany to call on his uncle, Lord Fermor, a genial if somewhat rough-mannered old bachelor, whom the outside world called selfish because it derived no particular benefit from him, but who was considered generous by Society as he fed the people who amused him.
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17  Fortunately for him she had on the other side Lord Faudel, a most intelligent middle-aged mediocrity, as bald as a ministerial statement in the House of Commons, with whom she was conversing in that intensely earnest manner which is the one unpardonable error, as he remarked once himself, that all really good people fall into, and from which none of them ever quite escape.
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