"One great flaw in the reforming passion is……" — Irving Howe

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• Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway. — Frank A. Clark
• That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste. — William Hazlitt
• The person giving the advice returns the confidence placed in him with a disinterested eagerness... and he is usually guided… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• Courtesy towards opponents and eagerness to understand their view-point is the ABC of non-violence. — Mahatma Gandhi
• When men, engaged in unjustifiable pursuits, are aware that obstructions may come from a quarter which bare apprehension of opposition… — Alexander Hamilton
• To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal… — Bertrand Russell
• There is no reason to make the search for friendship sound like an animal instinct. Friendship does not always come… — Martin E. Marty
• As a leader, you must be filled with energy and eagerness, joy and love for what you do. If you… — John Wooden
• It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to… — Jules Renard
• Our eagerness for worldly activity kills in us the sense of spiritual awe — Lahiri Mahasaya
• It was like the moment before you open a present, still hidden inside its box and wrappings; while you're waiting… — Susan Patron
• Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and… — Bennett Cerf

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