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- The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman. — Honore de Balzac
- Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- ...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor. — Samuel Johnson
- All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would… — Samuel Johnson
- By citing the UN Charter I indicate that the defensive party to the conflict should use only proportionate force, try to avoid… — Bhikkhu Bodhi
- The issue is not whether there are horrible cases where the penalty seems "right". The real question is whether we will ever… — Scott Turow
- No one knows where he who invented the plow was born, nor where he died; yet he has done more for humanity… — Charles Caleb Colton
- Uriah looked better than he did an hour ago--he washed the blood from his mouth, and some of the color returned to… — Veronica Roth