“There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.”
Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer
Source: How Proust Can Change Your Life
“Wisdom never learned silence, and it is most annoying when least wanted.”
Source: The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (1974), Chapter 10, p. 272.
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