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“It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to...” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“to control the child one must often control oneself.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education
“When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.” Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson
“what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of a man he is” C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat
“Hot anger was bad. Ender’s anger was cold, and he could use it. Bonzo’s was hot, and so it used him.” Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

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