“Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.”
Herman Melville book Bartleby, the Scrivener
Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853)
“There's nothing more aggravating in the world than the midnight sniffling of the person you've decided to hate.”
— Shannon Hale, book Book of a Thousand Days
Source: Book of a Thousand Days
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