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Variant: you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People
“You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.”
Address to the State Committee of the Liberal Party in New York City, Faith in Liberalism ( pdf http://www.adlaitoday.org/ideas/archive/care1_liberalism_08-28-52.pdf) (28 August 1952)
Letter to Harrison Blake (20 May 1860); published in Familiar Letters (1865)
Context: Men and boys are learning all kinds of trades but how to make men of themselves. They learn to make houses; but they are not so well housed, they are not so contented in their houses, as the woodchucks in their holes. What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? — If you cannot tolerate the planet that it is on? Grade the ground first. If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him … he will be surrounded by grandeur. He is in the condition of a healthy and hungry man, who says to himself, — How sweet this crust is!
“What a man sees, Love can make invisible—and what is invisible, that can Love make him see.”
Quel che l'huom vede Amor gli fa invisibile
E l'invisibil fa vedere Amore.
Canto I, stanza 56 (tr. G. Waldman)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child (1877)
Ad Leptinum 162, as quoted in Dictionary of Quotations (Classical) (1897) by Thomas Benfield Harbottle, p. 511
“Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.”
Life Thoughts (1858)
“You cannot tell a man he has the power to make the earth shake, then expect him to walk small.”
Mazrim Taim
(15 October 1994)