“He has a mild grave face; a thoughtful sternness, a sorrowful pity: but there is a terrible flash of anger in him too.”
1840s, Past and Present (1843)
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The Grave of Bonaparte, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919) (incorrectly attributed as "Leonard" Heath).

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“And flash him!” Annabeth’s face reddened. “That came out wrong. But yeah, good idea.”
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“My anger is the effervescence of my pity.”
[Bloy, Léon, Pilgrim of the Absolute, 1947, Pantheon Books, New York, 11, 13, https://books.google.com/books/about/Pilgrim_of_the_Absolute.html?id=vH5cAAAAMAAJ]

The God-Seeker (1949), Ch. 2

Poeta Fit, Non Nascitur, last stanza
Rhyme? and Reason? (1883)

Narrator, p. 186
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Honor (1985)