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When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted.

Thomas Paine
Passion, Men, Tongue
Thomas Paine (1856). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.5
When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted.