People
A people is a plurality of persons considered as a whole, as in an ethnic group or nation. Collectively, for example, Jews are known as "the Jewish people", European Gypsies comprise the bulk of "the Romani people", and Palestinian Arabs have started to be called "the Palestinian people".
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“A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
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—A.I. (Albert Isaac)
“There are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments do not become them.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)