"The mind profits by the wrecks of every…" — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories. — Walter Benjamin
• Every passion has its destiny. — Billy Mills
• Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
• This was Shakespeare's form ; Who walk'd in every path of human life, Felt every passion ; and to all… — Mark Akenside
• Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty. — Plutarch
• Whatever a man loves he inevitably clings to, and in order not to lose it he rejects everything that keeps… — Maximus the Confessor
• There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and… — Plutarch
• Almost all men are born with every passion to some extent, but there is hardly a man who has not… — Lord Chesterfield
• No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments… — Bernard de Mandeville
• There was an air of indifference about them, a calm produced by the gratification of every passion; and through their… — Gustave Flaubert
• Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live. — Joseph Conrad
• You've got to shake your fists at lightning now, you've got to roar like forest fire You've got to spread… — Joni Mitchell

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