“Anger makes one not only malign but sharp-sighted.”
Stefan Zweig book Beware of Pity
Beware of Pity (1939)
“Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things underground, and much more in the skies.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 6.
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