Part Passion

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    Let this great maxim be my virtue’s guide—In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near that comes to be denied.
    Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)

    Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals ... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
    Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)