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All, save I, were at rest or in enjoyment: I, like the arch-fiend, bore a hell within me; and, finding myself unsympathised with, wished to tear up the trees, spread havoc and destruction around me, and then to have sat down and enjoyed the ruin.
Mary Shelley1797–1851Frankenstein (1818), Chapter XVIIn context
- Good & Evil
It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
Tacitus55–120Agricola (98), Chapter 42; reported in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Mark Twain1835–1910
When angry count to four; when very angry, swear.
Mark Twain1835–1910Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894), Ch. 10.
Go no further down the road of hatred.
Virgil70–19 BCAeneid (29–19 BC), Book XII, Line 938 (tr. Robert Fagles); Turnus asking Aeneas for mercy.
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Palm Sunday (1981), The People One Knows
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