“Resentment is one of the few emotions that never lets you down, but it’s useless. In fact, it’s worse than useless, it’s harmful, and we all suffer from it at some time in our lives.”

— Theodore Dalrymple

CBC Ideas Interview (podcast) (September 25, 2006)

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English doctor and writer 1949

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