“A bad-tempered man will never make a good-tempered horse.”
Anna Sewell book Black Beauty
Black Beauty (1877), Ch. VII, p. 36
“Good temper is an estate for life…”
" On Personal Character http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Essays/Hazlitt/PersCharacter.htm" (1821) <br class="br">The Plain Speaker (1826)
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English writer 1778–1830Related quotes
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