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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong. |
| by Baltasar Gracian |
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He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.- David Hume
I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.
If that form of government, that system of social order is not wrong - if those laws of the Southern States, by virtue of which slavery exists there, and is what it is, are not wrong - nothing is wrong.
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
Once - many, many years ago - I thought I made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I had been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought that I was wrong.
