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H. G. Wells
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
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Auguste Renoir
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The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself and carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion. It is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Life is action and passion therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
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Rita Mae Brown
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Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
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D. H. Lawrence
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Be still when you have nothing to say when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
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G. W. F. Hegel
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Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
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George Bernard Shaw
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There is only one universal passion fear.
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Jean de La Fontaine
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
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Anthony D'Angelo
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Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
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La Rochefoucauld
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The pleasure of love is in the loving and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.
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Anthony D'Angelo
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Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
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Marquis de Sade
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Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
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ROBERT LOWTH: _Choice of Hercules,_ i.
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Where passion leads or prudence points the way.
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Rebecca West
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It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
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SHAKS.: _Mid. N. Dream,_ Act v., Sc. 1.
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More merry tears The passion of loud laughter never shed.
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Sue Halpern
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Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.'
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WORDSWORTH: _Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey._
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The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion.
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POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. ii., Line 13.
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Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused.
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Fawn M. Brodie
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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
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Aristotle
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
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C. S. Lewis
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Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
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C. S. Lewis
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Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
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George Santayana
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It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
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POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. ii., Line 131.
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And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
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Andr Gide
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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
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Joseph Conrad
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As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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JOHN FLETCHER: _The Nice Valour,_ Act iii., Sc. 3.
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Fountain heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves.
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La Rochefoucauld
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Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one- as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame. (Maxims)
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G. C. Lichtenberg
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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.
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Mark Twain
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The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
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BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iii., St. 77.
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The self-torturing sophist, wild Rousseau, The apostle of affliction--he, who threw Enchantment over passion, and from woe Wrung overwhelming eloquence.
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John Henry Jowett
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I have had but one passion, and I have lived for it - the absorbingly arduous yet glorious work of proclaiming the grace and love of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
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Aristotle
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It is easy to fly into a passion--anybody can do that--but to be angry with the right person and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way--that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it.
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Anthony Powell
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He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.
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Elizabeth Hardwick
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
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La Rochefoucauld
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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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John Adams
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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
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John Adams
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Facts are stubborn things and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
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George Santayana
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Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
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Martin Niem?ller
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There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new order of things..... Whenever his enemies have occasion to attack the innovator they do so with the passion of partisans, while the
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Erich Fromm
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How we glow over these novels of passion, when the story is told with any spark of truth and nature! And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before and nev
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Israel Zangwill
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In how many lives does love really play a dominant part The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.
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Daniel Webster
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Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future lives and crimes to society.
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Clive Staples Lewis
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Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
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Adlai Stevenson
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We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will y
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Abraham Joshua Heschel
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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George Santayana
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In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.
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All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
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What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
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As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
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Never underestimate the power of passion.
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Judgement, not passion should prevail.
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There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.
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A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.
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Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.
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Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
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The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.
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The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine.
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What is love? As far as I can tell, is is passion, admiration, and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you have all three, you dont have to die to go to heaven.
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The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
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You can overcome any obstacles by asking the right questions of the right people at the right time, then act on that advice with passion.
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I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.
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Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
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The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists of Ten Best.
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Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite.
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Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion.
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When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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You can make those promises with just as much passion the second time around. Such is the regenerative power of the human heart.
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Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
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Passion is the source of our finest moments, the joy of love, the clarity of hatred, and the ectasy of grief.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
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Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.
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The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
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To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.
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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
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"Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison." -- Savile
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Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.
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Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
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"I just want a little passion to hold me in the dark" - Tori Amos
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"One more chance to be caught unaware of this passion inside us..."
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"Desire for glory clings to men longer than any other passion."
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"Bother," said Pooh, as @FN@ started moaning in passion
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This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal-intellect suggests one course, and our heart or intuition, another.
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Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
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"Bother," said Pooh, as @N@ screamed in passion.
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"Eye to eye, we were caught unaware of the passion inside us..."
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"We were gods of passion, of love." Apollo
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"Our passion play has now at last begun." - Phantom
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"Fatal Passion" -- Lita Ford
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"The passion of youth." Methos to MacLeod
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"Man is only truly great when he acts from passion." -- Disraeli
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"Bother," said Pooh, as @FN@ screamed in passion
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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