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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,
One passion doth expel another still. – George Chapman

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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. РHonor̩ de Balzac

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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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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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