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Most other passions have their periods of fatigue and rest, their suffering and their cure; but obstinacy has no resource, and the first wound is mortal.
Most other passions have their periods of fatigue and rest, their suffering and their cure; but obstinacy has no resource, and the first wound is mortal.
Approximate author period: c. 1773 AD · early modern
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- Thomas Paine
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- Approximate author period: c. 1773 AD · early modern
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- Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896) (1896 AD)
Obstinacy · anthology attribution: Thomas Paine
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