“2683. Have a Care of him that is slow to anger, for like as green Wood which is long in kindling, continueth hot longer than the dry, if it have once taken Fire : So that Man, who is not easily moved is more hard to be pacify'd, than he that is quickly provoked.”

—  Thomas Fuller (writer)

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)

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British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654–1734

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