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• He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame;… — Edmund Burke
• It is the duty of all papas and mammas to forbid their children to drink coffee, unless they wish to have little… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
• To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not… — Charles Caleb Colton
• Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and… — Walter Savage Landor
• Urge all of your men to pray, not alone in church, but everywhere. Pray when driving. Pray when fighting. Pray alone. Pray… — George S. Patton
• Ambition is the immoderate desire for power. — Baruch Spinoza
• For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely… — Thomas Piketty
• But the mild voice of reason, pleading the cause of an enlarged and permanent interest, is but too often drowned, before public… — James Madison
• As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my Parents, so I could not be content now, but I… — Daniel Defoe
• Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man. — Democritus
• There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that's it — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
• The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of… — Edward Gibbon

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