506. Anger is a waste of time

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506. Anger is a waste of time

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Dec 11, 2019

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Why should we, as though we were born to live forever, waste our tiny span of life in declaring anger against any one? Life is a matter which does not admit of waste, and we have no spare time to throw away.

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