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Carl Sandburg

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Carl Sandburg

Anger

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Carl Sandburg means that anger does not achieve any real results or solve problems when it arises. Instead, it mainly causes harm to the person feeling angry rather than affecting the person they are angry with.

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