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Make up in wrath what is lacking in reason

4 April 2016 By Andrew Leave a Comment

William R. Alger

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Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.

— William R. Alger, Maturin Murray Ballou: /Treasury of thought: Forming an encyclopedia of quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors/ (1884), p. 23

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