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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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For one heat, all know, doth drive out another,
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The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another. – Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle. – Thomas Adams

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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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