“Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.”
Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887) American clergyman and activist
Life Thoughts (1858)
“5335. Two things a Man should never be angry at; what he can help, and what he cannot help.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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