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"Energy and ill temper," some say, "are the
same thing"; and though this is a strong exaggeration, yet there is a
basis of truth in it. People who labor much will be cross if they do
not obtain that for which they labor; those who desire vehemently will be
vexed if they do not obtain that which they desire. As is the
strength of the impelling tendency, so, other things being equal, is the
pain which it will experience if it be baffled. Those, too, who are
set on what is high will be proportionately offended by the intrusion of
what is low.
~Walter Bagehot (1826-1877)~
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