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Quote by Margery Allingham
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, tha

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. – Margery Allingham

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He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things. – Margery Allingham

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Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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For one heat, all know, doth drive out another,
One passion doth expel another still. – George Chapman

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They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch. – Marquis De Sade

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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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