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Many people
lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
-- Frank Moore Colby
1865-1925, American Editor,
Essayist
A fretful
temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by
ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce
may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
-- William Cowper
1731-1800, British Poet
A lady of what
is commonly called an uncertain temper -- a phrase which
being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to
make everybody more or less uncomfortable.
-- Charles Dickens
1812-1870, British Novelist
It was not
that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal
to the demands of her fine organism.
-- George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist
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