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Bitterness
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“My thoughts, I guess, are bitter: who but the bitter have thoughts?”
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“Bitterness leads nowhere. It turns back on itself. It is the eternal cul-de-sac.”
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“Don't be bitter ... One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter.”
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“Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief.”
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“My bitterness is not an abstract substance, it is as solid as a Christmas cake; I can cut it in slices and hand it round and there is still plenty left, for tomorrow.”
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“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. With this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low. I live in calm, looking to the end.”
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“Every soul knows its own bitterness.”
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“Vinegar he poured on me all his life; I am well marinated; how can I be honey now?”
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“... not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.”
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“There isn't a thing to eat down there in the rabbit hole of your bitterness except your own desperate heart.”
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“Bitterness had become a habit between them.”
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“... a grudge will soon rot the pocket you carry it in.”
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“... bitterness hardly cares what food it eats.”