The difficult part of good temper consists in forbearance, and accommodation to the ill-humors of others. - William Empson

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I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

William Empson

The difficult part of good temper consists in forbearance, and accommodation to the ill-humors of others.

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The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.

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