"Why is it that the uneducated minds always criticize the brilliant minds?"
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"The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk."
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"It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say."
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"A man is about as big as the things that make him angry."
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"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."
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"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."
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"I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right."
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"No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage."
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"I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow."
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"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
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"No man can humiliate me or disturb me. I won't let him."
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"Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can be cured by time; but hatred cannot. The one aims at giving pain to its object, the other at doing him harm; the angry man wants his victim to feel; the hater does not mind whether they feel or not."
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"Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head."
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"Anger is like A full hot horse, who being allowed his way, Self-mettle tires him."
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"No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove."
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"In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage."
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"Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep."
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"The man who becomes angry never does a great amount of work, and the man whom nothing can make angry accomplishes so much."
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"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people."
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"President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the economy. It's stagnating. And so, what they're now going to try and do is bring this campaign down to little things, distractions, distortions, smear, fear, anger, frustration."
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