“The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.”

—  G. K. Chesterton

" The Skeptic as a Critic http://books.google.com/books?id=DlMeAAAAIAAJ&q=%22The+full+potentialities+of+human+fury+cannot+be+reached+until+a+friend+of+both+parties+tactfully+intervenes%22&pg=PA218#v=onepage," The Forum ( February 1929 http://books.google.com/books?id=JqfPAAAAMAAJ&q=%22The+full+potentialities+of+human+fury+cannot+be+reached+until+a+friend+of+both+parties+tactfully+intervenes%22&pg=PA65#v=onepage)

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