"But the mild voice of reason, pleading the……" — James Madison

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• If creative work protects a man against mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity; and… — Anthony Storr
• An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even… — Thomas Paine
• Two attributes of a poet, avidity of the eye and the desire to describe that which he sees. — Czeslaw Milosz
• When hungry, do not throw yourself upon food - else you will overload your heart and body. Eat slowly, without… — John of Kronstadt
• One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with… — Ivan Turgenev
• Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of… — Oscar Wilde
• Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all… — Claude Adrien Helvetius
• This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly… — David Hume
• Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the… — David Hume
• The thyroid cells take up iodine with particular avidity and are able to store it up in great quantities. — Emil Theodor Kocher
• Forgotten children, conform a new faith, Avidity and lust controlled by hate. — Slayer

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